Taliban ambush kills at least 20 Afghan soldiers

Taliban ambush in south central Afghanistan have killed at least 20 Afghan policemen. Fighting is an ongoing affair and the police were attacked in an ambush in the areas of Chino and Ghulam Rabat. Apart from the dead, there are at least 10 more wounded and the numbers may increase once full details are known. Dozens of Taliban fighters were also believed to have been killed and wounded.
This has been reported in indiatimes.com dated 21 may 2017.

Reinforcements have been sent to the area and fighting was also going in another nearby district, but the extent of casualties was not readily known. It seems the Taliban offensives have reappeared because American and allied officials are considering reinforcing the military setup by sending some more military advisers to help train and assist the Afghan security forces who are battling a 16-year-long Taliban insurgency.


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#ISIS #PakistanTaliban #AfghanistanTaliban It was a fight between two Islamist groups when extremists fighting for the Islamic State's fledgling outpost in Afghanistan brutally beheaded at least 10 Taliban members when they were fleeing a gun battle with government troops.
The attack happened in a remote area in the eastern province of Nangarhar and has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 June 2015.

The rival terror groups had declared war on one another in April after the Afghan Taliban branded the self-declared caliphate of ISIS illegitimate and refused to declare allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Since then, the rivalry between the two Islamic terror groups have intensified with the ISIS responding by launching recruitment drives deep into Taliban territory. Tis allowed them to expand rapidly – they have even replaced the Taliban as the dominant controlling force in one of the districts.
The influence of the ISIS is growing and Boko Haram in Nigeria and extremists in Libya have already entered the ISIS fold. As a result, other terror groups like the Al Shabaab in East Africa, Al Qaeda in the Middle East and the Taliban in central Asia are now faced with a dilemma ad have to take a decision on whether to join up with ISIS or risk becoming the group's enemies.
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