commander of Afghanistan’s Special

commander of Afghanistan’s Special

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Though the Taliban has repeatedly claimed that it has ended the presence of IS-KP in Afghanistan, it is abundantly clear that the IS-KP remains a potent threat. Indeed, on June 5, 2024, a report issued by the Afghanistan United Front (AUF), led by Sami Sadat, former commander of Afghanistan’s Special Forces, stated that IS-KP had a current strength of 9,000 fighters in Afghanistan and could conduct attacks “throughout the region”. AUF further noted, “The IS-KP group has the ideological, human resources, and recruitment capacity to carry out attacks in Europe and the United States, and they have demonstrated this capability in Afghanistan and Iran as well.” Most recently, on December 12, in its propaganda poster regarding the suicide attack on Khalil Rahman Haqqani, IS-KP’s Al-Azaim media criticized the remarks of the Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi สล็อต