| | | In the meantime the Taliban needs help to fight terrorists, especially as Team USA left behind all the weapons to everybody except what is now the ex-Army, and what is Taliban. Presumably either there was no time to do the responsible act, or that Team USA wished to ensure Afghanistan was left in a mess and to remain in a mess. No other explanation explains enough.
In the meantime Taliban seems to be hunting down Islamic State fighters.
Let’s see if the hunt continues. Should it do so, continues, would make the last 20 years even more silly than already is, that US invasion of Afghanistan was a war against terror, which it might not have been. It was a war, undoubtedly, but against terror might not have been the objective. If such be the case, the war continues, but only phase-changing Message 33446104
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Afghan security forces kill Islamic State fighters Afghan soldiers arrive at a prison during an ongoing raid in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Monday. Photo: AFP
Afghan security forces on Monday killed at least 10 Islamic State fighters who had taken control of a prison in the eastern city of Jalalabad, ending a siege in which hundreds of prisoners escaped.
At least 29 people were killed in the militants' assault on the prison on Sunday evening and subsequent clashes with security forces, a spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province said before the final shootout.
"The attack is now over," Sohrab Qaderi, a member of the provincial council, told Reuters after security forces clashed night and day with militants who had taken over the prison watchtowers.
The violence comes at a sensitive time for Afghanistan as the US attempts to usher peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgent Taliban, who say they oppose Islamic State and have fought against them.
More than 300 prisoners were still at large, Attaullah Khugyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar province, said. Of the 1,793 prisoners, more than 1,025 had tried to escape and been recaptured and 430 had remained inside.
"The rest are missing," he said.
A defense ministry statement said all 10 attackers had been killed by Afghan security forces, though a provincial council member and a witness inside the prison told Reuters the number was likely around 30.
Reuters
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