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So why the big delay? The UN last spring warned the Security Council what was going on and in September they claimed that ISIS had taken over three quarters of Afghanistan.
Check the timeline. It explains why Putin started to take the fight to ISIS right after the UN assembly. Chechens are part of the fighting force in Afghanistan.
ISIS is on his doorstep.
Here's the delayed admission by the Pentagon.
Why did they hold back on this? What game is Obama running down on us?
Pentagon warns ISIS offshoot growing in Afghanistan, 'operationally active' | Fox News
Here's the September warning by the UN.
By AFP United Natons, United States Saturday, 26 September 2015
The ISIS group is making inroads in Afghanistan, winning over a growing number of sympathizers and recruiting followers in 25 of the country’s 34 provinces, a U.N. report said Friday.
The militant group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, has been trying to establish itself in Afghanistan, challenging the Taliban on their own turf.
Afghan security forces told U.N. sanctions monitors that about 10 percent of the Taliban insurgency are ISIS sympathizers, according to the report by the U.N.’s al-Qaeda monitoring team.
“The number of groups and individuals who are openly declaring either loyalty to or sympathy with ISIS continues to grow in a number of provinces in Afghanistan,” said the report.
Afghan government sources said “sightings of the groups with some form of ISIS branding” or sympathy were reported in 25 provinces in the war-torn country, it added.
More at link:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/09/26/ISIS-gaining-ground-in-Afghanistan.html
Check the timeline. It explains why Putin started to take the fight to ISIS right after the UN assembly. Chechens are part of the fighting force in Afghanistan.
ISIS is on his doorstep.
Here's the delayed admission by the Pentagon.
Why did they hold back on this? What game is Obama running down on us?
Pentagon warns ISIS offshoot growing in Afghanistan, 'operationally active' | Fox News
Here's the September warning by the UN.
By AFP United Natons, United States Saturday, 26 September 2015
The ISIS group is making inroads in Afghanistan, winning over a growing number of sympathizers and recruiting followers in 25 of the country’s 34 provinces, a U.N. report said Friday.
The militant group, which controls large areas of Syria and Iraq, has been trying to establish itself in Afghanistan, challenging the Taliban on their own turf.
Afghan security forces told U.N. sanctions monitors that about 10 percent of the Taliban insurgency are ISIS sympathizers, according to the report by the U.N.’s al-Qaeda monitoring team.
“The number of groups and individuals who are openly declaring either loyalty to or sympathy with ISIS continues to grow in a number of provinces in Afghanistan,” said the report.
Afghan government sources said “sightings of the groups with some form of ISIS branding” or sympathy were reported in 25 provinces in the war-torn country, it added.
More at link:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/09/26/ISIS-gaining-ground-in-Afghanistan.html