Taliban's War on Terror
Inside the Taliban's battle with the Islamic State
The fall of Kabul to the Taliban saw Afghanistan stripped of democracy. On top of this political upheaval, just 11 days after the Taliban took Afghanistan's capital, Islamic State launched the first of several attacks in the country. These attacks have killed hundreds of civilians, and shattered any hope of a lasting peace or stability in Afghanistan. Now, Norwegian Paul Refsdal reports, the Taliban is waging their own War on Terror in the Eastern province of Nangarhar - the birthplace of the Afghan branch of the Islamic State. Here, the violence rarely grabs international headlines, but confrontations between the Taliban security forces and the Islamic State are a nearly daily occurrence.
As seen on BBC Persia and GB News.
The Taliban have issued a stark official warning to both members of Islamic State, and those associated with its members: 'If someone was convicted of a relation with Islamic State ... if he was a common civilian, or a decent man, even if he'd done it because of poverty ... they will all be counted as IS, and there is no mercy for them'. It's been alleged that members of Daesh, if caught, are executed, but this is denied by a Taliban representative: 'That is 100% false'. Amnesty has been offered to former IS members promising to cut ties with the group - but with a harsh proviso: 'anyone who breaks this oath will be exiled, and his house will be burned', states a Taliban security official.
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