The Taliban have launched a crackdown on ISIS strongholds in southern Afghanistan.
According to the AFP news agency, the officials concerned said on Monday that the crackdown was being carried out after the attacks carried out by ISIS in Khorasan in recent weeks.The Taliban's provincial police chief, Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi, told AFP that the operation against ISIS was launched at night in at least four districts of Kandahar province and continued until Monday morning.
According to him, "so far four ISIS fighters have been killed and 10 arrested, one of whom blew himself up inside a house."
A member of the Taliban's intelligence agency, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that at least three civilians had been killed in the operation.
Local media quoted a Taliban official as saying that a bomb had exploded in the western suburbs of Kabul on Monday morning, but no one was killed or injured.
ISIL has been active in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul for three months since the Taliban came to power.
Last month, ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a mosque in Kandahar that killed at least 60 people and wounded several others.
One week before the attack, ISIS Khorasan claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Kunduz province. More than 60 people were killed.
On Sunday, ISIS claimed responsibility for a bomb blast in Kabul that destroyed a bus. A prominent journalist and two others were killed in the attack.
Earlier this month, ISIS fighters also attacked the National Military Hospital in the city, killing at least 19 people and wounding 50 others.
ISIS has also claimed responsibility for other attacks in Dzhalal-Abad. The city is the capital of Nangarhar province, which is a hotbed of ISIS activities in Khurasan.
