Ayaz Gul
VOA News
December 23, 2017
ISLAMABAD — Russia has estimated there are about 10,000 Islamic State militants in Afghanistan and their number is growing because fighters fleeing Syria and Iraq also are heading to the war-ravaged country.
Russian media on Saturday quoted Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, as saying Moscow is particularly worried about an increasing foothold of Daesh militants in northern Afghan provinces bordering Tajikistan and Turkmenistan. Daesh is the Arabic acronym for IS.
“Russia was among the first to be sounding the alarms in connection with the emergence of Daesh in Afghanistan…. Daesh has significantly increased its power in the country recently. According to our estimates, the number of militants exceeds 10,000 and continues to grow, particularly due to new fighters arriving from Syria and Iraq,” Kabulov told the Sputnik news agency.
The Russian envoy alleged helicopters “without identifying insignia” are transferring fighters and delivering “Western [military] equipment” to the Afghan branch of the terrorist group.
He added that Moscow repeatedly has raised the issue with the United Nations and NATO, but has not yet received “a clear response” from them.
Kabulov says the situation in the Afghan provinces of Jowzjan and Sar-e-Pol are of particular concern because locals also have spotted Algerian and French fighters in the IS ranks. He went on to assert that the terrorist group aims to extend its influence to Russia’s southern regions and its partner nations in Central Asia.
“We are regularly asking our NATO partners, who are in fact controlling the airspace over Afghanistan, about this issue, but we have not heard any reasonable answer yet,” Kabulov insisted.
Officials at NATO’s Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, which consists mostly of U.S. troops, blame Moscow for supporting and arming the Taliban, which has been waging a deadly insurgency to topple the U.S.-backed Afghan government.
Afghan officials are dismissing concerns IS loyalists have established a stronghold in the country, and they are playing down the threat posed by the terrorist group. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told reporters earlier this week sustained security operations backed by U.S. airstrikes have in the past nine months killed about 1,600 Daesh fighters, including senior commanders.
IS began its extremists operations in eastern Afghanistan in early 2015, and at its peak had roughly 3,000 fighters, according to U.S. military estimates.
U.S. officials maintain counter-IS operations being conducted in partnership with local forces have since put persistent pressure on the terrorist group, significantly reducing its territory and eliminating one third of its fighters in the country.
Brothers and Sisters, look !
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The children of Hitler played out the game of ISIS and destroyed Iraq and Syria- ow the rats (thugs and thugmars) are shooting the same military tactical disinformation to destroy and humiliate all the people of Afghanistan.
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They will play Shia/Sunni game as well- if any Muslim country takes sides in this game, then it will clearly mean that they would be siding with the enemies of the people of Afghanistan.
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STOP THE ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN OF HITLER
FROM THE GENOCIDES OF DEFENSLESS PEOPLE (women, men and children).
THEY WANT TO CREAT FREE HAND IN DESTROYING ALL THE TRUE LIBERATION MOVRMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE FSLSE PRETEXT OF FIGHTING ISIS- Isis is their own brainchild- stop the international “thugs and thugmars” !
Anglo/US and their tacitally-approved Russian allies are working under exactly the same elimination program of local resistances.
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The devils are unified in their targets but the goofy Muslim countries are just mesmerized with the puppeteer’s script.
Dear brothers and sisters !
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Just go over the pages of historical facts of late 1920’s and see for yourself the information on the same active international spoilers who doggedly were plotting to get rid of AMMAHNULLAH KHAN the great of Afghanistan.
And notice how, in the process, the coward enemies of the people of Afghanistan were able to set back the social and economical reforms for almost a century.
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PLEASE !
GO OVER THE DETAILS OF THOSE HISTORICALALLY CRITICAL MOMENTS THAT ARE STILL SHAPING UP THE PRECIOUS LIVES OF THE HONORABLE PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE REGION AND ITS SURROUNDINGS.
They used all the avialble dirty tricks in an order to carry out their evil designs- they still have the same options available right now as well and they won’t have mercy to refrain from it- they will undermine you at any appropriate time, once again if you let them.
* THAT IS WHAT IT IS- you
like it or not.