The Taliban fundamentalist movement reported Thursday that eight suspected Islamic State members have been killed in a raid on several of the organization’s hideouts in the Afghan capital.
The operation, in which seven other suspected members of the armed group were also arrested, took place overnight in Kabul, government sources confirmed to the Afghan news agency Pajhwok.
The usual Taliban spokesman and deputy information minister, Zabihullah Mujahid, has indicated that these people, belonging to an «important and dangerous network», «organized and attacked» the latest attacks recognized by the Islamic State, while they had also planned attacks «against other important places.
In this regard, Muhayid referred to three recent attacks, such as the one carried out around the Kabul airport on New Year’s Day, which left fifty dead or wounded; as well as the one perpetrated against a hotel where people with Chinese nationality usually meet – which took place in mid-December and left at least 30 victims -, and the attack against the Pakistani embassy in the country, in early December and which left one seriously wounded.
Muhayid pointed out that among the presumed dead jihadists there are foreign nationals, while he added that several suspects have been arrested.
«As a result (of the operation), three hideouts have been destroyed,» he said, specifying that they have obtained «a large quantity of light weapons, hand grenades, mines, vests and explosives».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
