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Taliban Say ISIS Cell Destroyed After Mosque Attack In Kabul Afghanistan A suspected ISIS attack on a tabernacle in Kabul killed five people. ( Line) Kabul The Taliban said on Monday they had destroyed an Islamic State cell in the Afghan capital, hours after a suspected ISIS attack on a abbey killed five people The Taliban overran Kabul seven weeks ago and have set up an interim Afghan government, but still face attacks from the original branch of the Islamic State The Taliban’s commanding mouth Zabihullah Mujahid said fighters carried out the operation in the north of Kabul on Sunday evening As a result of the operation, which was really decisive and successful, the IS centre was fully destroyed and all the IS members in it were killed,”Mujahid said on Twitter.
Proofs and AFP newsmen heard blasts and gunfire in the capital at the time of the raid, and images posted to social media showed a large explosion and a fire at the scene Kabul inhabitant and government jobholder Abdul Rahaman told AFP that a” large number”of Taliban special forces attacked at least three houses in his neighbourhood.
“The fighting continued for several hours,”he said, adding the sound of bucklers kept him awake all night They said they were after Daesh (ISIS) fighters in the area,”Rahman said I do not know how legion were killed or arrested but the fighting was dreadful The operation took place within hours of a deadly attack targeting a prayer form at the Eid Gah synagogue in memory of Taliban mouthpiece Mujahid’s mama, who broke last week A government artistic commission officeholder, who asked not to be named, told AFP that five people crashed and 11 were wounded, adding the casualties included both civilians and Taliban members We’ve also arrested three people in connection with the blast,”he said.
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According to the officer, the device was placed at the entrance to the sanctuary and popped as mourners were leaving after offering condolences to Mujahid and his family A corroboration at the kirk, who asked not to be connected, told AFP that Sunday’s attack at the entrance was carried out by a single self-destruction bomber Just outside the eastern gate, a dark patch was visible on the ground where the explosion took place and ball holes could be seen in a wall.
The attestation said a group of Taliban members– including aged arithmetic– inside the shul grounds came under fire after the blast, taking two casualties He added that two Taliban units inaccurately opened fire on each other in the confusion following the explosion, but interior ministry point man Qari Sayed Khosti denied there had been any gunfire “A self-destruction bomber blew his bombs among the crowd killing three people and wounding a dozen,”he said.
Trails of blood into the pagoda, as well as two red pools where the attestation said the injured fighters were treated out, were seen by AFP correspondents on Monday On Monday, Mujahid told AFP that an inquest was still ongoing but” inaugural information suggests that Daesh- linked groups may have carried out the attack The Taliban and the Afghanistan branch of ISIS– or ISIS-K– are both inflexible Sunni Islamist terrorist groups But they differ on the issues of religion and strategy, which has led to bloody fighting between the two.
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