Afghanistan: Day after ISIS claim, Taliban say 14 killed and 6 injured in terror attack

A day after the Islamic State claimed an attack in Afghanistan, the Taliban on Friday said that 14 people were killed six were injured in an attack.

The terrorist group ISIS on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack in central Afghanistan. The Afghan media reported that the attack took place in the Karyudal area at the border of Daykundi and Ghor provinces.

The reports said that Shia Hazaras, an ethnic minority in Afghanistan, were the target of the attacks. The minority community has often been targeted by the Sunni terrorist group Islamic State, which has been waging an insurgency against Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.

The reports said that ISIS terrorists attacked Shia Hazaras returning from the pilgrimage of Arbaeen in Karbala in Iraq, which marks 40th day of mourning of the death of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and the founder of the Shia sect of Islam.

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The reports said the terrorists stopped the bus carrying the victims in the guise of taking photographs and then opened fire.

The Central Asia branch of the Islamic State, the Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), is active in Afghanistan and neighbouring nations. The ISKP is waging a yearslong movement against the Taliban, the rulers of Afghanistan. The ISKP and its parent ISIS reject the Taliban’s Caliphate in Afghanistan. This is because while the Taliban is a nationalist organisation with its ambitions limited to Afghanistan, the ISIS is a globalist jihadist organisation which wants to establish an Islamic state called the Caliphate across the world.