Islamic State blamed for Afghan suicide bombing killing 35

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    Syria, Iraq… and now Afghanistan: Isis advance enters Helmand province for the first time, Afghan officials confirm - Middle East - World - The Independent
    ▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-iraq-and-now-afghanistan-isis-advance-enters-helmand-province-f

    ISIS fait son entrée en #Afghanistan, où des combats l’opposent aux talibans,

    Isis, the militant group that claims to have established a “caliphate” across Iraq and Syria, has now reportedly extended its territories into Afghanistan for the first time.

    According to the Afghan military, the organisation that calls itself “Islamic State” is actively recruiting and operating across the south of the country.

    Officials say a man identified as Mullah Abdul Rauf has been claiming to represent Isis in the region, setting up a network of followers who are inviting people to join them across the southern Helmand province.

    But they have clashed with the local Taliban, military sources claim, whose leaders have warned people to have nothing to do with Rauf.

    General Mahmood Khan, the deputy commander of the army’s 215 Corps, told the Associated Press: “A number of tribal leaders, jihadi commanders and some ulema (religious council members) and other people have contacted me to tell me that Mullah Rauf had contacted them and invited them to join him.”

    Amir Mohammad Akundzada, the governor of the Nimroz province adjacent to Helmand, said Rauf was a former Taliban commander – as well as a relative who he had not seen for two decades.

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      Afghan suicide bombing blamed on Islamic State kills 35
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      The Taliban denied it carried out in the attack and another elsewhere in the province that killed one civilian and wounded two.

      “We condemn/deny involvement in both,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid tweeted.

      Ghani warned before that the Islamic State group was starting to establish a presence in Afghanistan. He used his visit to the United States last month to reiterate his concerns that the extremist group was making inroads into Afghanistan.

      “If we don’t stand on the same line united, these people are going to destroy us,” he told 600 people gathered at the provincial government headquarters in Faizabad, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province.

      He called on the Taliban to join with the Kabul government, and said that any Taliban who switched allegiance to Islamic State group would earn the wrath of Afghanistan’s religious leaders.

      Ghani also blamed a recent attack on an army outpost, in which 18 soldiers were killed, eight of them beheaded, on “international terrorists.” The Taliban aren’t known to carry out beheadings.

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      Disenchanted extremists from the Taliban and other organizations, impressed by the Islamic State group’s territorial gains and slick online propaganda, have begun raising its black flag in extremist-dominated areas of both Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan.

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