More than 25 Taliban killed’: IS claims attacks in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad

The Islamic state has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb attacks in the city of Jalalabad in East Afghanistan, the Amaaq Group news agency said on the telegram channel on Sunday. AMAAQ News Agency said that “three separate bomb attacks” target three “Taliban Vehicles” in Jalalabad on Saturday, and other “bomb attacks” on Sundays on “Taliban Vehicles”. “More than 35 Taliban militia members were killed or injured, in a series of explosions that occurred,” he said.

Local media reported that pickup trucks carrying Taliban fighters was the target of bombs in the eastern city of Jalalabad – the capital

Nangarhar, which borders Pakistan, is the only province where the Taliban is targeted that after they reclaim Afghanistan in August. Some districts in Nangarhar Province and Kunar are Heartland as long as the previous Afghan government and the pumpkin ruled the district for five years. They were finally expelled by Afghan forces, people rebellious and the Taliban.

Whether and the Taliban are hardline Sunni Islamic groups, but they are different on religious problems and strategies, which have caused bloody battles between the two. The Taliban and are enemies before foreign forces left Afghanistan. The Taliban has focused on Control of Afghanistan, while affiliates in Afghanistan and elsewhere called global jihad. When the Taliban faces the main economic and security challenges in trying to regulate Afghanistan, is an attack will further complicate the effort.

IS-K also claims responsibility for bloody attacks that killed more than 160 Afghanistan and 13 US troops at Kabul Airport at the end of August because tens of thousands of people tried to escape from the Taliban.

Nangarhar Province, the Heart of the Afghan Branch of the Islamic Group, Sunday. The witnesses also told local media that some of the injured Taliban fighters were taken to hospital after the explosion, which a journalist said happened near the exchange for transportation to and from Kabul. At least two people were killed on Saturday in a series of explosions in the area, the first deadly explosion since the last US forces withdrew from Afghanistan on August 30.