The expert said that the IG will create problems for the Taliban in Afghanistan

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The coming to power of the radical movement “Talliban” (banned in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan will be marked by the fight against another terrorist group – the “Islamic State” (IS, banned in Russia). This was stated by Mark Hecker, an expert on terrorism, director of research at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI).

As he told the newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche, one group will fight the other, in particular on the ideological field.

“IS.. is trying to bypass the Taliban in terms of radicalism. The organization accuses them of collaborating with the Americans,” Hecker explained.

According to the expert on terrorism, the current situation will be complicated by the fact that earlier members of the IG were in the ranks of the Taliban, or organizations associated with it. For example, the head of the regional cell “IG in Khorasan”, presumably, who was in the ranks of the terrorist group “Haqqani Network”, which is associated with the Taliban. The latter often came under the wing of the IS during their territorial expansion in Syria and Iraq. Then the group owned the funds and could pay the militants.

Currently, the “IG in Khorasan”, according to the UN, has 1.5-2.2 thousand militants, mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the country.

Hecker believes that the struggle can be waged between organizations through a strategy of intimidation. The IG, having lost the captured territories, began to organize terrorist attacks regularly. However, their frequency decreased by 80% from the spring of 2019 to the spring of 2020.

The expert explained that the increase in the number of terrorist attacks organized by the IG will be an attempt “to show that the Taliban cannot stabilize the situation in the country.”

Источник www.mk.ru

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