Kabul, February 27 At least two suspected members of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group were killed and another detained during a Taliban operation in the Afghan capital, an official source said on Monday, during the second operation of the kind in less than a month in Kabul.
“In the Khair Khana neighborhood of Kabul city, a successful operation was carried out against an ISIS hideout in which two ISIS operatives were killed and another was arrested,” a statement said. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said. .
The operation took place on Sunday evening and security forces recovered firearms and explosives, the source said, adding that the jihadist group was planning to carry out a sabotage mission.
This is the second such operation in less than a month in the Afghan capital, after at least two suspected IS members died on February 13, including a foreigner, and another was capture.
Since the Taliban returned to power a year and a half ago, dozens of suspected ISIS members have died in operations carried out by fundamentalist security forces in an attempt to enforce the security guarantees they boasted. before reaching the government.
The jihadist formation has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in recent months, one of the latest a bomb attack on January 11 that killed at least 5 people and injured 40 others in front of the Foreign Ministry in Kabul.
The fundamentalists maintain a strong rivalry with the terrorist formation, which emerged as one of the main security threats in Afghanistan after the Taliban rose to power in August 2021. EFE
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