ISIS militants ambush and kill Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

#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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The strategy of US and allies to pound oil wells that account for the major source of finance of the ISIS seems to have hit the mark and terrorists who are fighting for ISIS in Syria are believed to have freed 150 prisoners in the group's de facto capital Raqqa dailymail.co.uk.
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The ISIS fighters who set the prisoners free want to prevail upon America and its Arab allies to end the campaign of airstrikes. The desperate militants have reportedly released the captives overnight in the belief that the move could encourage an anti-ISIS coalition of nations to focus their raids away from Raqqa. The 150 prisoners who have been set free by the group are all believed to have been arrested in recent weeks and could be locals accused of committing minor crimes.
Incidentally, Raqqa is the stronghold of ISIS and is widely thought to be a base for the group's senior figures - including leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - and where British hostages Alan Henning and John Cantlie are being held. The news comes as a fresh wave of airstrikes from the United States and its Arab allies hit ISIS oil refineries overnight, killing at least 14 militants and striking at the heart of the terror group's funding.
ISIS generates up to $2million a day from the sale of oil, employing highly trained engineers to extract thousands of barrels a day from the vast swaths of Syria and Iraq under the terror group's control.