KABUL: Taliban government forces destroyed the cell of the Islamic State in North Kabul on Sunday, a spokesman for the movement said, after the explosion outside the mosque in the Afghan capital killed and injured a number of civilians.
There was no confirmation that the operation was directly connected with Sunday’s explosion, which seemed to be the most serious attack in the Afghan capital since the withdrawal of troops A.S.
At the end of August.
The local affiliate of the Islamic State, known as ISIS-Khorasan, has claimed to have carried out an attack on the Taliban target and remained not covered by the movement that swept the victory over Western-supported government in Kabul in August.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that the Taliban unit specifically carried out operations on ISIS elements in the 17th district of Kabul, in the north of the city on Sunday.
“The ISIS base was completely destroyed and all ISIS members were killed by this decisive and successful attack,” he said in a statement on Twitter early on Monday.
Previously, local media reported heavy clashes in the area and residents who were contacted confirmed that they had heard explosions and shots at night.
The Taliban, who also fought the remains of the loyal forces to Ahmad Massoud, an opposition leader from the Panjshir area in the north of Kabul, said they had almost complete control over the country.
But Sunday hardness, and a series of smaller incidents in the past few days in the area including Nangarhar on the border with Pakistan and Parwan in North Kabul, has shown that security threats have not disappeared.
The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for bomb attacks in East City Jalalabad also for suicide attacks that killed 13 US troops and a number of Afghan civilians who were busy outside the gate of Kabul Airport, desperate to secure the evacuation chair.