ISIS moves in on Afghanistan: Chilling pictures show jihadis have set up terror training camps as it’s claimed they have KILLED the Taliban’s leader and seized control of large parts of the war-torn nation
Taliban has been divided by a bitter turmoil, leading to ISIS-led splinter cell
ISIS is targeting Taliban’s territory in Afghanistan with a campaign of terror
Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is reported to have been shot dead
His death could be an ISIS attempt to destroy Taliban from the top down
By IMOGEN CALDERWOOD
DailyMail.com
5 December 2015
Reports emerged this week that the Taliban leader was killed in a dramatic internal shoot-out after a meeting of commanders of the now divided movement turned sour.
The formerly united group has been severed by a bitter internal turmoil that has seen a splinter cell break away and declare loyalty to ISIS, which is steadily carving a trail of bloody destruction through the Taliban’s Afghanistan territory.
It is believed that members of the ISIS-led breakaway cell could be responsible for the as yet unconfirmed death of the Taliban’s elected leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour.
His death, if proven, exposes the strife among the Taliban’s top ranks as the group seems to be crumbling under ISIS’ growing strength in Afghanistan.
ISIS would have good reason to want to take out the head of the Taliban group, weakening the group as it moves in on its Afghanistan territory.
ISIS’s regional affiliate, Wilayat Khurasan, has entrenched itself in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan and launched a violent campaign against local Afghans to crush any opposition.
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