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ISIS just ambushed and killed 15 Taliban fighters as the terror groups wage a bloody battle while the US watches
Associated Press
ISIS fighters attacked the house of a Taliban commander in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pul on Tuesday, killing at least 15 Taliban attending a prayer ceremony.
ISIS and the Taliban have been waging a bloody battle in northern Afghanistan for the last two months, with as many as 100 fighters on both sides killed in recent days.
Northern Afghanistan has become one of the main areas of ISIS activity in Afghanistan as the movement has spread beyond its original base in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where it remains strong.
ISIS fighters attacked the house of a Taliban commander in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pul on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people as they were attending a prayer ceremony, the provincial governor's office said.
"Two Daesh fighters entered a Taliban commander's house where a ceremony was under way and opened fire," said Zabihullah Amani, spokesman for the Sar-e-Pul governor's office said, using a term widely used for ISIS.
Amani said 15 Taliban were killed and another five wounded.
"Daesh and Taliban have been fighting each other for more than two months in [neighboring] Jowzjan and Sari Pul, killing hundreds on both sides," Amani told AFP.
Abdul Qayuom Baqizoi, the police chief of Afghanistan's Sar-i-Pul province, told the Associated Press that as many as 100 Taliban and ISIS fighters had been killed during clashes in recent days.
Northern Afghanistan has become one of the main areas of ISIS activity in Afghanistan as the movement has spread beyond its original base in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where it remains strong.
Associated Press
However establishing a clear picture of the group remains difficult in a remote and often mountainous region, with diverse bands of fighters and militiamen often switching sides between the Taliban, ISIS and even the pro-government camp.
In Nangarhar, a local commander known variously as Saba Gul or Mohammad Khorasani was killed by a drone strike on Monday afternoon, the Nangarhar governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani, said.
A former Taliban commander, he moved to ISIS after the group first appeared in Nangarhar in late 2014 and was responsible for hundreds of deaths, Khogyani said.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, troops raided a Taliban prison in the southern province of Helmand late on Monday, releasing 58 prisoners, officials said.
The prisoners included four ANA soldiers, 15 policemen, and two doctors, according to TOLO News, citing an Afghan Security Forces statement. Four Taliban insurgents were also arrested.
Separately, Taliban fighters attacked three checkpoints of the Afghan border forces in the southern province of Kandahar, killing nine members of the security forces and suffering 25 killed themselves, Kandahar police spokesman Zia Durani said.
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