The Taliban have launched a series of operations in much of the country against IS.
At least a hundred jihadists from the Islamic State (IS) surrendered to the Taliban this Sunday in Nangarhar province, in eastern Afghanistan, part of an operation to end the terrorist formation in the country.
“65 members of the Islamic State surrendered to the Islamic Emirate (as the Taliban interim government calls itself) in the Koat and Batikoat districts of the province and expressed their remorse for its past activities,” said a spokesman for the Nangarhar governor’s office. to Eph.
The spokesman added that a second group of 35 jihadists surrendered to the Taliban in the presence of tribal leaders from the Koat and Spin-Ghar districts.
Nangarhar intelligence chief Bashir said in a video message that the jihadists “have been pardoned under conditions … but if they violate these conditions they will face serious action by the government.”
A Taliban official, who requested anonymity, claimed that to date 149 IS fighters have surrendered to fundamentalist security forces in various parts of Nangarhar.
“We are trying to convince more IS fighters to surrender, but if they continue with their destructive actions they will have to confront the security forces and military operations,” he said.
The Taliban have launched a series of operations in much of the country against IS, which are still ongoing, and have killed or detained dozens of jihadists in at least eight of the 34 Afghan provinces.
In the latest action by the fundamentalists, four ISIS members were killed in clashes with the Taliban in the western city of Herat on October 24.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for attacks in at least eight of the 34 Afghan provinces since the Taliban seized power on August 15, including eastern Kunar, Nangarhar and Laghman, as well as Kabul, northern Parwan and Kunduz and the southern Kandahar and Khost.
The largest attack by the jihadist group in recent months, with about 170 deaths, took place on August 26 at the Kabul airport, when thousands of Afghans desperately tried to flee the country on one of the repatriation flights.
Furthermore, an ISIS suicide attack on a Shiite mosque left at least 80 dead and about 100 wounded in Kunduz on October 8, and another similar attack on Friday in southern Kandahar left another 60 dead.
Analysts and experts have pointed out that the jihadist group has become the greatest threat to the security of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, being behind almost daily attacks against fundamentalists. (I)
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