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Taliban help suffocate Islamic State's Afghan presence

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: AFGHANISTAN
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: Afghanistan AP India Pakistan

Topical: international relations politics civil war guerrillas military security terrorism ethnic religion
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2020), "Taliban help suffocate Islamic State's Afghan presence", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB252024

Friday, April 17, 2020

Significance

This audacious act is retaliation for a string of defeats that IS has suffered in eastern Afghanistan since November 2019.

Impacts

Demonstrable military successes against IS will enhance the Taliban's standing in Washington.
The Taliban will use its expanded territorial control of eastern regions to improve its bargaining position with Washington and Kabul.
IS's efforts to recruit disaffected Taliban and other jihadists will fail because of its loss of credibility.

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