...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
has grabbed credit for a Saturday attack in Afghanistan’s Balkh province, the group’s telegram account said on Sunday.
The blast at a cultural centre during an event for journalists in northern Afghanistan killed at least one person and maimed eight, according to authorities and journalists.
However,
death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate...
the Tebyan Cultural Centre states, "Three persons were killed, and 30 others, including journalists, were maimed in the incident".
This was the second incident within three days in the Balkh province; the first was a suicide kaboom that killed the governor of Balk, Mullah Dawood Muzmal, and the second blast targeted the Afghan journalist’s award event.
The Islamic State claimed both incidents.
IS-Khorasan is the main rival of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
-led government, aiming to target Taliban officials, foreign citizens and people.
Recently, the group has intensified their attacks on Afghanistan’s Kabul, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Balkh provinces.
Although the Taliban claims the conflict has been finished in the country, the radical Islamic State of Khorasan and other snuffies have ferociously targeted Kabul city and other places.
The blast targeting media workers was caused by a “parcel bomb that IS fighters managed to place and detonate”, the group said in a statement via its Amaq News Agency on Sunday.
“The blast targeted a rally held inside a Shiite [Shia] centre to reward several journalists working in agencies involved in the war and instigation against IS,” the statement said.
A security guard was killed, while five journalists and three children were wounded in the bomb attack, police said.