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The Taliban are losing the fight against Islamic State
Posted By Oved Lobel on December 6, 2021 @ 12:30
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[1] topped: https://twitter.com/AfghanAnalyst2/status/1464044874571952134?s=20
[2] most powerful: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/afghanistan-withdrawal-will-increase-terror-threat-to-australia/
[3] claims: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/23/afghanistan-isis-pakistan-intelligence/
[4] disappear: https://www.wsj.com/articles/left-behind-after-u-s-withdrawal-some-former-afghan-spies-and-soldiers-turn-to-islamic-state-11635691605#refreshed
[5] told: https://www.wionews.com/south-asia/islamic-state-militants-now-present-in-all-34-afghan-provinces-says-un-envoy-430267
[6] testified: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/26/islamic-state-afghanistan-capacity-strike-us-next-year-al-qaida
[7] identified: https://www.state.gov/taking-action-against-isis-k/
[8] launched: https://aijac.org.au/australia-israel-review/the-rise-and-rise-of-the-islamic-states-khorasan-province/
[9] public transport: https://twitter.com/Valle_Riccardo_/status/1461035323362787342?s=20
[10] bombings: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/08/world/asia/afghanistan-mosque-attack.html
[11] Kandahar: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-16/islamic-state-claims-mosque-bombing-in-southern-afghanistan/100545350
[12] bombing: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1445063191705305095?s=20
[13] conducting: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/11/22/taliban-isis-afghanistan/
[14] beheading: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1463955288650924039?s=20
[15] controlled: https://knewz.com/knewz-exclusive-inside-afghanistans-isis-k-stronghold-its-a-no-go-zone-even-for-the-taliban/
[16] backing: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1756290/1-pakistan-regional-spymasters-resolve-counter-islamic-state-afghanistan
[17] Russia: https://newlinesinstitute.org/afghanistan/security-and-governance-in-the-talibans-emirate/
[18] likely: https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/26361-US-prepared-to-work-with-Taliban-against-ISIS-K-in-Afghanistan
[19] reports: https://twitter.com/talibs_exposed/status/1463976109003968524?s=20
[20] Credible: https://twitter.com/KabulChronicle/status/1460253371328307201?s=20
[21] former members: https://www.wsj.com/articles/left-behind-after-u-s-withdrawal-some-former-afghan-spies-and-soldiers-turn-to-islamic-state-11635691605
[22] total economic collapse: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/business/economy/afghanistan-taliban-financial-crisis.html
[23] humanitarian catastrophe: https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1463799735635091457?s=20
[24] offering: https://twitter.com/BBCYaldaHakim/status/1463788646386085893?s=20
[25] fuel: https://twitter.com/abdsayedd/status/1463606337913430022?s=20
[26] playing up: https://www.militantwire.com/p/a-history-of-the-islamic-states-media
[27] publicise: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3151791/why-did-isis-k-say-its-suicide-bomber-was-uygur
[28] partner: https://twitter.com/abdsayedd/status/1458473902238277642?s=20
[29] underlined: https://twitter.com/talhaahmad967/status/1439611509634654210?s=20
[30] bored: https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/10/02/in-power-the-talibans-divisions-are-coming-to-the-fore
[31] indefinitely: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/09/19/afghanistan-taliban-fighters/
[32] support: https://www.usip.org/publications/2020/06/bourgeois-jihad-why-young-middle-class-afghans-join-islamic-state
[33] defected: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1460905541342052354?s=20
[34] expand: https://twitter.com/Natsecjeff/status/1462736623821594626?s=20
[35] warned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51dtCAvYYlE
[36] wide campaign: https://eeradicalization.com/afghanistan-report-three-jihads-us-withdrawal-and-delusions-oved-lobel/
[37] advantage: https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/11/in-fight-against-islamic-state-the-taliban-holds-major-advantage.php
[38] ill-conceived: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-afghanistans-fall-to-the-taliban-increases-the-global-terrorism-threat/