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US-trained Afghan soldiers & spies joining ISIS terrorists to ‘resist’ Taliban – reports

Russia Today 01 Nov 2021
The Taliban has long accused Washington of funding ISIS, and now they’re indirectly right, as a growing number of US-trained Afghan soldiers and intelligence officials are joining the terrorist group’s ranks to fight the Taliban ... Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS) Afghan offshoot, IS-K, is eagerly absorbing these US-trained recruits.
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Hunted by Taliban, 'abandoned' former Afghan spies turn to ISIS

The Times of India 01 Nov 2021
According to a report on the Wall Street Journal, a few members of the US-trained forces joined the extremist group's regional affiliate, ISIS-Khorasan, after Taliban started searching their homes and demanding that they present themselves to the country’s new authorities ... ISIS-K.
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Tunisia dismantles ISIS cell in southern city of Tataouine

The Arab Weekly 30 Oct 2021
TUNIS--Tunisian forces dismantled a cell linked to Islamic State (ISIS) in the southern city of Tataouine that was planning to attack security and military forces, the Interior Ministry said on Friday ... They include fighters from Jund al-Khalifa, or “Soldiers of the Caliphate”, linked to the ISIS group and jihadists from Okba Ibn Nafaa.
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Tunisia reports dismantling two ISIS-linked cells in days, one cell was planning attacks

Russia Today 29 Oct 2021
Tunisian forces have dismantled two extremist cells linked to Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) active in various parts of the country ... The group was “linked to terrorists affiliated with the so-called Caliphate Soldiers Organization settled in the Tunisian mountains,” Al-Jabali said.
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Isis-K insurgency jeopardises Taliban’s grip on Afghanistan

The Irish Times 27 Oct 2021
Analysts have warned of further violence as Isis-K tries to prevent the Taliban from consolidating their grip on Afghanistan ... But Isis-K, which has been active in Afghanistan since 2015, wants to establish an Islamic caliphate across Afghanistan, Pakistan and parts of India and Iran.
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ISIS terror master blew up himself, kids: New report

Toronto Sun 26 Oct 2021
The poisonous pooh bah of ISIS blew up himself and his two young sons as U.S ... ISIS terror master Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s path to martyrdom ended two years ago — Oct ... A serial rapist, he kept a small army of sex slaves scattered around the doomed caliphate ... At one point, ISIS ruled over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in their so-called caliphate ... .
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Afghanistan’s ISIS-K could be ready to strike US in six months, Pentagon says

The National 26 Oct 2021
The Afghan branch of ISIS could be ready to strike the US in six months, a senior defence official told the Senate on Monday ... “We could see ISIS-K generate that capability in somewhere between six or 12 months." ... The strength of ISIS-K does not match that of its affiliates in Iraq and Syria when they established a self-declared caliphate in 2014.
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Why the Taliban won’t tackle ISIS-K

Asiatimes 21 Oct 2021
As such, in many ways, the Taliban’s new Islamic Emirate stands as a nemesis of the global caliphate ISIS-K has been seeking to build ever since its emergence in the Levant in 2014 ... to and joining forces with ISIS-K to create a caliphate that extends to China’s Xinjiang region.
photo: AP / Hussein Malla, File
In this July 21, 2017, file photo, Kurdish soldiers from the Anti-Terrorism Units, carry a blindfolded an Indonesian man suspected of Islamic State membership, at a security center, in Kobani, Syria.
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‘A lull not a loss’: Islamic State is rebuilding in Syria, say Kurdish forces

The Guardian 14 Oct 2021
Three years ago it was teeming with diehard IS members, but when thousands of holdouts emerged from the decimated town of Baghuz, the war against the so-called caliphate was won, or so it seemed.  ... .
photo: AP / Baderkhan Ahmad
Children gather outside their tents, at al-Hol camp, which houses families of members of the Islamic State group, in Hasakeh province, Syria, Saturday, May 1, 2021.
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The children of IS: 'It's a disaster we cannot deal with'

BBC News 13 Oct 2021
The al-Hol camp is chaotic, desperate and dangerous ... "There are daily killings, they are burning tents when people don't follow ISIS ideology,"  he says, "and they are passing on those radical views to their children." ... Despite living in the "caliphate" many claim to be unaware of the beheadings, massacres and genocide committed by the group ... .
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Taliban play down ISIS-K threat despite spate of attacks

The National 12 Oct 2021
ISIS-K “will not last” in the country, he said ... ISIS-K is driven by Afghan dynamics rather than the global claims of ISIS central – such as establishing a caliphate – and is connected to ISIS more for moral encouragement, the trademark flag and resources, he said. “ISIS-K is in ...
photo: AP / Felipe Dana
File - Taliban fighters patrol a neighborhood in search for a man accused in a stabbing incident, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021.
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Can the Taliban suppress the potent IS threat?

The Siasat Daily 12 Oct 2021
Kabul. With the Taliban in power in Afghanistan, there’s a new enemy ascending. The Islamic State group threatens to usher in another violent phase. Except this time the former insurgents, the Taliban, play the role of the state, now that the U.S ... 15 ... IS says it is THE Islamic State, a global caliphate that it insists all Muslims must support ... .
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ISIS finance chief captured by Iraqi forces, Iraq PM says

CNN 11 Oct 2021
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN)Iraqi forces captured Sami Jasim, the deputy of former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraq's Prime Minister said in a statement on Monday ... Inside the dramatic US military raid that killed ISIS leader Baghdadi ... Baghdadi became the leader of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2010.
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Recording ISIS’s Iraqi crimes - book review

The Jerusalem Post 08 Oct 2021
Under ISIS control, Friday morning prayers were followed by mass executions in the public square ... She writes, “As in other parts of ISIS’s sprawling caliphate, women suspected of adultery were beheaded and men believed to be homosexual were thrown from atop buildings ... MEMOS FROM INSIDE THE ISIS BATTLEFIELD.
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For years, the voice behind ISIS propaganda was a mystery; now a Canadian faces criminal charges

Stars and Stripes 02 Oct 2021
He ultimately led ISIS’s English-language media arm, prosecutors allege, whose output included videos, audio statements and an online magazine. Prosecutors say Khalifa narrated over a dozen ISIS recruitment videos, including two of the group’s most influential efforts at luring Westerners ... “He also went with ISIS to the last holdouts.”.
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