The continual expansion of the Islamic State in Africa and now in the greater Khorasan region is of grave concern due to the strategic location of the region. This is the big reason why countries have prioritized the “humanitarian crisis” in Afghanistan but couldn’t care less about a worse humanitarian crisis sparked by the Islamic State in Africa.
So now, UN Special Envoy Deborah Lyons told the UN Security Council that more attention from the international community is needed. “The Taliban, she said, has been unable to stem ISKP’s growth.
”Let’s hope against hope that the approach will not be to further legitimize the Taliban in efforts to control ISIS-K. The Taliban and the Islamic State groups are virtually the same, aside from waging war against each other for territorial control. To expect anything resembling “human rights” from the Taliban is sheer folly."
Both groups aim to establish the Sharia regionally and globally, no matter how brutal they have to be in order to accomplish this.
“U.N. envoy says Islamic State now appears present in all Afghan provinces,” by Jonathan Landay, Reuters, November 17, 2021:
WASHINGTON, Nov 17 (Reuters) – The U.N. envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday delivered a bleak assessment of the situation following the Taliban takeover, saying that an affiliate of the Islamic State group has grown and now appears present in nearly all 34 provinces.
U.N. Special Representative Deborah Lyons told the U.N. Security Council that the Taliban’s response to Islamic State-Khorasan Province’s (ISKP) expansion “appears to rely heavily on extrajudicial detentions and killings” of suspected ISKP fighters.
“This is an area deserving more attention from the international community,” she said.
Her comments came hours after the group — an ideological foe of the Taliban — claimed responsibility for two blasts that killed at least one person and wounded six others in a heavily Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Kabul. read more
The Taliban, she said, has been unable to stem ISKP’s growth.