ISIS And Taliban Team Up in Afghanistan

When the Islamic State group established their modern-day “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria a few years ago, they made it clear that they weren’t content to impose their view of Islam on just the Middle East, but sought to establish similarly governed Islamist provinces in various spots around the globe.

One such outpost was established in Afghanistan, and though the local Islamic State group affiliate has clashed with the other terrorist organizations that already occupy the war-torn nation, there have long been fears that the disparate and squabbling Islamist groups could eventually join forces against their common enemies, namely the Afghan government and their U.S. and international backers.

According to The Daily Caller, that very well may have finally occurred on Sunday when a supposedly joint attack was launched by a local Islamic State group affiliate alongside militants under command of the Taliban, an attack that reportedly resulted in the deaths of about 50 local police, militia members and civilians.

The New York Times reported that the attack took place in the northern province of Sar-e-Pul, and the local district governor was certain that it had been a joint operation involving the Taliban and Islamic State group fighters, even naming names of those who had been involved.

However, a Taliban spokesperson vehemently disputed the allegation that the two groups had worked together, and claimed that the local commander ostensibly affiliated with the Islamic State group was actually one of their own members.

The spokesman also denied committing any of the reported atrocities, such as the beheading of innocent captured civilians, and stated that “only 28 local militia were killed,” according to CNN.

The Times reported that the Taliban and Islamic State group affiliates have been engaged in something of a turf war throughout parts of the country, especially in the eastern region, but have reached a sort of symbiotic truce in the north, with that alleged cooperation sparking worries of a broader coalescence between the two terrorist organizations in the restive country.

“One of the things we are concerned about here in Afghanistan, the reason we think that the entire world needs to be focused on Afghanistan, is the potential for convergence among the various terrorist groups in this area,” warned Gen. John W. Nicholson in April, according to The Times. Nicholson commands all of the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Indeed, the Taliban has recently proven themselves quite resilient and resurgent in many areas of the country, posing a grave threat to the progress that has been made over the years since the U.S. first invaded to take out Osama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda in 2001.

With the Islamic State group’s grasp of their “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria now rapidly diminishing, it has grown increasingly likely that they will seek out other locations around the world to rear their ugly heads, with Afghanistan being a prime spot to nourish and grow their backwards ideology.

Hopefully this brutal attack wasn’t a sign of more cooperative and coordinated attacks to come in the near future, as the horrifyingly medieval manner in which the two groups treat women, children, homosexuals and unbelievers in general is entirely unacceptable, even in a Third-World hellhole like Afghanistan.

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