{"id":1033387,"date":"2021-11-19T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1033387"},"modified":"2021-11-19T17:58:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T22:58:58","slug":"u-n-isis-present-in-every-province-of-afghanistan-after-only-3-months-of-taliban-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-n-isis-present-in-every-province-of-afghanistan-after-only-3-months-of-taliban-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N.: ISIS Present in Every Province of Afghanistan After Only 3 Months of Taliban Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-n-isis-present-in-every-province-of-afghanistan-after-only-3-months-of-taliban-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1033387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan warned this week that the Islamic State\u2019s local faction now had significant representation in every province of the country, three months after the Taliban jihadist group took control over the country and a week after the Taliban insisted ISIS was not a problem.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State\u2019s subsidiary in Afghanistan is known as the ISIS Khorasan Province (ISIS-K). Its numbers are believed to have grown significantly following the collapse of the ISIS \u201ccaliphate\u201d in Iraq and Syria in 2017. The group grew into a significant nuisance for the Taliban during the last days of the Afghan War, as ISIS jihadists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/04\/25\/jihadi-war-between-taliban-and-islamic-state-intensifies-in-afghanistan\/\">attempted<\/a> to overrun Taliban territory and take over key assets like opium-cultivating poppy fields. The two groups are both, however, Sunni jihadist organizations, and the Taliban has attempted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/10\/taliban-claims-600-islamic-state-arrests-says-group-not-considered-a-threat\/\">reason<\/a> with the Islamic State since coming to power.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>American military officials believe that the Taliban freed thousands of ISIS prisoners as it took over former American assets following their abandonment in August, greatly increasing the Islamic State\u2019s operational ability in the country.<\/p>\n<p>United Nations Special Representative for Afghanistan&nbsp;Deborah Lyons <a href=\"https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/srsg-lyons-briefing-unsc-situation-afghanistan-3\">offered<\/a> the global institution a dire update on Wednesday regarding the situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the Taliban takeover, the Afghan people now feel abandoned, forgotten, and indeed punished by circumstances that are not their fault,\u201d Lyons lamented. \u201cTo abandon the Afghan people now would be a historic mistake\u2014a mistake that has been made before with tragic consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lyons appeared to give the Taliban significant credit for appearing to be open to collaboration with the United Nations and for an alleged improvement in the \u201coverall security situation\u201d in Afghanistan \u2013with the Islamic State threat a glaring exception to that assessment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>Once limited to a few provinces and Kabul, ISILKP [ISIS Khorasan] now seems to be present in nearly all provinces and increasingly active,\u201d Lyons revealed. \u201cThe number of attacks has increased significantly, from last year to this year. In 2020 \u2013 60, so far this year \u2013 334 attacks attributed to ISILKP or, in fact, claimed by ISILKP.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban insist that they are waging a concerted campaign against ISILKP, but this campaign is worrying in that it appears to rely heavily on extra-judicial detentions and killings of suspected ISILKP members,\u201d Lyons noted, adding that the Taliban is \u201cmaking genuine efforts to present itself as a government.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18686610\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Taliban-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18686610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Taliban-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance gate of the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul on November 3, 2021, a day after an attack claimed by the Taliban&#039;s hardline rivals the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), in which at least 19 people were killed. (Wakil Kohsar\/AFP via Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taliban fighters stand guard at an entrance gate of the Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan military hospital in Kabul on November 3, 2021, a day after an attack claimed by the Taliban\u2019s hardline rivals the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), in which at least 19 people were killed. (Wakil Kohsar\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Like many others in the U.N. apparatus, Lyons urged \u201cdialogue\u201d with the Taliban and humanitarian support. She described her experience with Taliban jihadists as \u201cgenerally useful and constructive\u201d and credited the Taliban with providing security to U.N. workers \u2013 a claim that contradicts Reuters reporting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/08\/26\/taliban-beating-u-n-workers-optimism\/\">revealing<\/a> attacks on U.N. workers by Taliban members in August.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Lyons asserted that \u201ca sustained and structured policy dialogue between the Taliban de facto authorities, other Afghan stakeholders and the wider region and international community\u201d would be necessary to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe, as the Afghan economy and much of society simply collapsed when the U.S.-backed government abandoned the country to the Taliban in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban, currently operating as the government of Afghanistan, has repeatedly attempted to assure the international community that the Islamic State is not a significant threat to their rule or the Afghan people, despite ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/12\/afghanistan-mosque-bombing-leaves-over-a-dozen-injured-after-taliban-says-security-getting-better\/\">bombings<\/a> and other terrorist attacks that ISIS-K has claimed to orchestrate. At the beginning of the month, Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/02\/taliban-says-isis-does-not-exist-in-afghanistan-then-blames-it-for-kabul-bombing\/\">told<\/a> the Afghan outlet Khaama Press that the Islamic State \u201cis just a phenomenon and does not exist at all in Afghanistan leave alone recruiting people in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In more elaborate remarks, Khalil Hamraz, a spokesman for the Taliban\u2019s General Directorate of Intelligence, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/10\/taliban-claims-600-islamic-state-arrests-says-group-not-considered-a-threat\/\">told<\/a> reporters at a press conference last week that Taliban jihadists had arrested over 600 ISIS jihadists and killed 33 \u201cimportant\u201d Islamic State leaders, including fundraisers and propagandists. Top Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, present at the same press conference, asserted that the Islamic State was \u201cnot considered a threat\u201d in the country and had a \u201cnot large\u201d presence in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that the Islamic State is a threat to the population of Afghanistan, is it largely the doing of the Taliban itself. The Pentagon told reporters that it had reason to believe Taliban terrorists had liberated \u201cthousands\u201d of prisoners in former American facilities at Bagram Airbase, a U.S. base before President Joe Biden abruptly withdrew from the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know the exact number \u2014 clearly it\u2019s in the thousands when you consider both prisons, because both of them were taken over by the Taliban and emptied,\u201d Pentagon press secretary John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/27\/pentagon-confirms-thousands-of-islamic-state-prisoners-released-by-taliban\/\">confirmed<\/a> shortly after the Taliban\u2019s seizure of power in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban took over the country on August 15 after a rapid campaign across Afghanistan to seize territory from the government of former President Ashraf Ghani. That day, Ghani fled Kabul, allowing the jihadists to storm the capital city. The Taliban began its takeover in earnest after President Biden announced in April that he would break an agreement between Washington and the Taliban that would have seen U.S. troops depart in May 2021. Instead, Biden extended the war \u2013 first through September, then cutting the deadline to August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan warned this week that the Islamic State\u2019s local faction now had significant representation in every province of the country, three months after the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1033387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}