ISIL training Taliban militants in Afghanistan’s north

‘Militants belonging to the ISIL Takfiri group, operating mainly in Iraq and Syria, are now said to be training Taliban militants in a northern province of Afghanistan.

The ISIL militants are “supporting the Taliban, training the Taliban, trying to build the capacity of the Taliban for a bigger fight,” the governor of the northern Afghan province of Kunduz, Mohammed Omar Safi, said on Friday.

Safi added that Afghanistan has been witnessing a massive influx of foreign militants from a host of countries including Pakistan and Tajikistan as well as the Chechnya in North Caucasus.’

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