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| Bombs kill 11 in Afghanistan as Taliban, IS supporters clash |
| 2015-05-26 |
| [DAWN] A suicide truck kaboom and a separate roadside kabooming in southern Afghanistan killed 11 people and maimed dozens more on Monday, as the Taliban clashed with supporters of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group in the west, officials said. Gov. Asif Nang said the Taliban have been clashing with rival gunnies claiming allegiance to the IS group for three days in the western Farah province, leaving at least 10 Taliban fighters and 15 IS supporters dead. He provided no further details. The festivities provide the latest indication of a small but growing Islamic State presence in the country. Afghan and foreign officials differ over the extent to which the myrmidon group -- which rules large parts of Syria and Iraq -- is able to operate in Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been waging war against the Western-backed government for more than a decade. The truck bomb struck the gate of the provincial council's compound in the capital of Zabul province, killing at least five people and wounding 62, council director Atta Jan Haqbayan said. Three of the maimed were council members, including two women, and children were also among the maimed, Haqbayan said. Mirwais Noorzai, Zabul's police chief, said the attacker used a small truck. President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. condemned the attack for which no group immediately grabbed credit. Insurgents have stepped up attacks in recent months in Zabul, which borders Pakistain, and a number of Hazara Shia men have been kidnapped in the province. Later on Monday, a roadside kaboom went kaboom!in the neighboring Kandahar province, killing six people, according to the governor's front man, Samim Khopalwaq. Three coppers were killed elsewhere in Kandahar when a firefight erupted between two groups of officers, said provincial police front man Zia Durrani. Four officers expeditiously departed at a goodly pace, he said, adding that the incident was under investigation. Meanwhile, ...back at the dirigible, the gondola was dangling by a single thread of rope. Jack!Cynthia cried. I just realized I'm afraid of heights! I don't even like high heels!... in northern Sari Pul province, police said the body of a local official in charge of religious affairs, Abdul Wodod, was found Monday, three days after he was kidnapped. Gen. Habib Gulbhary, the provincial police chief, said the man was kidnapped by unknown assailants. |
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