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Top Security Officer Says ISIS Defeated In One Of Afghan Provinces
Afghanistan branch ISIS terrorist group has been defeated in one of the eastern provinces where it initially sought to establish a stronghold.
A top Security official made this known to our correspondent in Jalalabad.
In the years since, they have claimed responsibility for a string of horrific bombings across Afghanistan, including at a wedding hall in Kabul, and have been continually attacked by US, Afghan and even Taleban forces.
The ISIS, or Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, “were defeated in Nangarhar, their centres were destroyed”, Acting Interior Minister Massoud Andarabi told journalists in Jalalabad, the Nangarhar provincial capital, amid ongoing operations against the extremists.
“We will soon destroy their last centres. With the people’s help, we will completely eliminate them. Some of their smaller groups are surrendering, other small groups will be eliminated in other provinces.”
He went on to say that the ISIS was being “completely defeated” in Afghanistan.
US Forces-Afghanistan, which closely monitors the ISIS footprint in Afghanistan, declined to comment, referring a query back to the Interior Ministry.
Mr Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar’s governor, said that 32 ISIS fighters surrendered to government forces on Saturday.
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The ISIS has suffered a string of major defeats in recent months, including the collapse of their self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Syria and the death of the group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in a US raid in Syria last month.
Connections between Baghdadi and the ISIS-affiliate in Afghanistan, better known as ISIS in the Khorasan, or IS-K, have always been murky.
But Mr Khogyani said that Baghdadi’s death had disrupted IS-K’s command and control structure.
“It has affected the fighters on the ground here, they are either surrendering to the government or going back to their ordinary lives,” he said.
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