Press TV / December 30, 2015 Militants from the Takfiri Daesh have kidnapped hundreds of civilians in the troubled eastern Afghanistan over the past two months, local officials say. Haji Ghalib Mujahid, the governor of Achin District in the eastern Nangarhar Province, announced on Wednesday that the militants abducted around 300 civilians across several villages
VOA News December 30, 2015 JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN—Several hundred local Afghans took to the streets of the eastern city of Jalalabad Wednesday, demanding that Kabul step up military operations against Islamic State (IS) and Taliban militants in Nangarhar province. Protesters chanted slogans against IS and the Taliban and accused the government of not doing enough to
Khaama Press: “The rapid growth of this group [IS] that appeared in Afghanistan in summer of 2014, its intention to ‘swallow’ other extremist groups, draw militants of all kinds into its ranks, in particular Taliban fighters themselves, redistribute sources of income, including such lucrative sources as drug trafficking – all these factors are very worrying for
VOA News / December 29, 2015 The suicide bombing Tuesday at a government office building in northwest Pakistan highlights the increasingly violent presence of the Islamic State militant group in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Jamaat ul-Ahrar, which is part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) umbrella militant group and has reportedly joined forces with IS, has claimed
VOA News / December 29, 2015 ISLAMABAD — Counterterrorism authorities in Pakistan say they have arrested a group of 13 suspected militants operating a recruiting and training facility for Islamic State. Officials at the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) told VOA a telephone intercept prompted them to conduct the raid earlier this week against the IS-linked
RT: Islamic State militants have been involved in “direct rivalry” with Taliban militants in several provinces across crisis-torn Afghanistan, a former special representative of the UN Secretary-General told RIA Novosti. “During the last month or two, we have recorded it [the conflict between ISIS and Taliban] in the city of Herat [Herat province, western Afghanistan],
Press TV / December 29, 2015 At least 68 members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in strikes by the Afghan air force in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for the provincial governor, said the aerial assaults were carried out across the Achin district some 150 kilometers (86 miles) east
VOA News / December 28, 2015 Afghanistan’s president has condemned the beheading of four Islamic State fighters by militiamen loyal to a prominent lawmaker, and has ordered those responsible to be brought to justice, a government spokesman told VOA on Monday. The amputated heads of the IS fighters were displayed on public roads in Nangarhar
Khaama Press: A powerful lawmaker Haji Zahir Qadir who is currently heading a group of armed volunteers against the terrorist group of the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh in eastern Nangarhar province says oppression of Daesh is not tolerable anymore. Click here to read more (external link).
Robert Fisk: Isis men are now fighting in their thousands in the country we arrived to “liberate” 14 years ago, quite apart from tens of thousands of Taliban “pushing” in to their “heartland” around Sangin. Click here to read more (external link).