Taliban says eight ISIL fighters killed in raids in Afghanistan

The raids observe a sequence of assaults performed by ISIL, together with a lethal bombing close to a checkpoint in Kabul.

The Taliban has performed a sequence of raids concentrating on key figures concerned in a spate of assaults in Kabul [File: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo]

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban has killed eight ISIL (ISIS) fighters and arrested a number of others in a sequence of raids concentrating on key figures in a spate of assaults in Kabul, a senior Taliban authorities spokesman has stated.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid stated on Thursday that the raids within the capital metropolis and western Nimroz province yesterday focused ISIL members who organised current assaults on Kabul’s Longan Lodge, Pakistan’s embassy and the navy airport.

Eight ISIL fighters, together with overseas nationals, have been killed and 7 others arrested in Kabul, whereas a separate operation in western Nimroz province resulted in two extra ISIL arrests, Mujahid stated.

“These members had a fundamental function within the assault on the [Logan] lodge and paved the best way for overseas [ISIL] members to come back to Afghanistan,” the spokesperson stated in a tweet.

ISIL claimed duty for a lethal bombing close to a checkpoint on the Afghan capital’s navy airport on Sunday. The group stated that assault was carried out by somebody that additionally took half within the Longan Lodge assault in mid-December.

ISIL had revealed a photograph of the attacker, figuring out him as Abdul Jabbar, saying he withdrew safely from the assault on the lodge after he ran out of ammunition. It added he detonated his explosives-laden vest concentrating on the troopers gathered on the checkpoint.

Mujahid stated gentle weapons, hand grenades, mines, vests and explosives have been confiscated by the Taliban’s safety forces in the course of the raids on an ISIL hideout within the Shahdai Salehin neighbourhood of Kabul. Residents reported sounds of a number of explosions and an hours-long gun battle.

ISIL’s regional affiliate – often called the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISIS-Okay) – is a key rival of the Taliban and has elevated its assaults in Afghanistan for the reason that Taliban takeover in 2021. Targets have included Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shia minority.

The Taliban swept throughout the nation in August 2021, seizing energy as United States and NATO forces have been within the final weeks of their closing withdrawal from Afghanistan after 20 years of warfare.