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Daesh terrorists gaining ground in Afghanistan: UN

The file photo shows Takfiri Daesh terrorists in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has recruited militants in 25 of the country's 34 provinces, a UN report says.

"The number of groups and individuals who are openly declaring either loyalty to or sympathy with ISIL continues to grow in a number of provinces in Afghanistan," according to a Friday report by the UN’s al-Qaeda Monitoring Team.

Some 70 Daesh terrorists have traveled from Iraq and Syria, the terror group’s strongholds, to Afghanistan, and now form the core of the militants’ actions in the country, the report said.

It also named Abdul Rauf Khadem, an adviser to Mullah Omar, the former leader of the Taliban militant group, as one of the prominent Daesh terrorists in Afghanistan. Khadem visited Iraq in October 2014 and has since established his own group in Helmand and Farah provinces, and recruited followers by paying out large sums of money.

The report also noted that a number of Pakistani and Uzbek militants -- some of whom closely affiliated to al-Qaeda -- have recently joined Daesh terrorists in Afghanistan.

On June 16, the Taliban warned Daesh ringleader, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”

The militant group asked the Daesh leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan and stop supporting those elements that are recruiting young militants in Taliban strongholds.

Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity years after the United States and its allies attacked the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. Although the attack overthrew the Taliban, many areas across Afghanistan still face violence and insecurity.


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