Taliban: Bomb hits mosque in Afghanistan, wounds at least 15

KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban provincial spokesperson says a weaponry exploded successful a mosque during Friday prayers, wounding 15 radical successful eastbound Afghanistan, wherever Islamic State radical militants person been waging a run of violence.

Qari Hanif, the authorities spokesperson for Nangarhar Province, said the weaponry appeared to person been planted wrong the mosque successful the municipality of Traili, located successful the mountainous Spin Ghar country extracurricular the provincial superior Jalalabad.

IS militants person been carrying retired astir regular shootings and bombings against Taliban fighters successful the province. IS bombings against mosques successful the country person been overmuch rarer, however, since the portion is overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim. The radical is known for bombing mosques belonging to Afghanistan’s Shiite number that person killed hundreds of people.

Since coming to powerfulness successful Afghanistan 3 months ago, the Taliban person been waging a counterinsurgency campaign, vowing to enactment down the menace from IS.

IS is an force of the Taliban. The 2 groups stock a hard-line mentation of Islam and implicit the years engaged successful immoderate of the aforesaid convulsive tactics, specified arsenic termination bombings. However, the Taliban person focused connected seizing power of Afghanistan, portion IS adheres to planetary jihad.

On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the Taliban quality work told reporters successful Kabul that the bureau has arrested adjacent to 600 IS members, including cardinal figures and fiscal supporters. The spokesman, Khalil Hamraz, said astatine slightest 33 IS members person been killed successful weapon battles with Taliban information forces.