ISIS Warns Taliban Of Tough Days Ahead For Group

Voice of Khorasan, an ISIS magazine, warned the Taliban that the Islamic State’s fighters are present across, what the magazine termed as, “Khorasan” and the Taliban will face “tough days” ahead.

The new volume of the magazine published on June 11 and in Pashto, called the Taliban “militants”.

In recent weeks, ISIS-K’s attacks on the Taliban have increased.

Last week, in two separate suicide attacks in Badakhshan province, two senior Taliban members have been killed. On Tuesday, June 6, the Taliban confirmed that in an attack, Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, the deputy governor of the group for Badakhshan had been killed with his driver, and six others were injured.

On Thursday, June 8, during the funeral ceremony of Ahmadi, another explosion took place at the Nabawi mosque of Faizabad city of Badakhshan. In this attack, 11 people, including Safiullah Samim, former police commander of Taliban in Baghlan, had been killed and 30 others got injured. However, sources said that the number of casualties in the attack was higher.

During the past month, the Taliban reported attacks on ISIS-K’s positions in different areas of Afghanistan. Nonetheless, some of the group’s officials claimed that Daesh has been “defeated” and does not have the capability of massive attacks in Afghanistan.