[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
has declared war on Talibs in Afghanistan as it called the latter "hypocrites and stooges of the unbelievers".
An ISIS commander, in a statement, said Talibs are betraying Islam and that they should be killed everywhere and their properties should be seized, reports Tasnim news agency.
Molon labe, dude. Let's you and them fight. | Last year in August, Afghan Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the group is resolved to target ISIS members.
Afghanistan has long been facing instability due to continued fighting between the government forces and the Taliban, which seized vast territories in the Afghan rural areas. Also, recently the presence of ISIS forces in Afghanistan even though limited to a small area has further added to its problems. |