ISIS Flees Taliban Onslaught, Surrenders To Afghan Forces
Asymmetrical Warfare sometimes makes for strange bedfellows, especially in the Middle East, where alliance can be had for a price and blue on green attacks occur. Case in point, Afghanistan, Operation Freedom’s Sentinel where the US, supported by UK and Canada, invaded in October 2007. This coalition grew to include over 40 countries, with the aim to dismantle al-Qaeda and deny the Taliban safe harbor there. Then ISIS arrived.
Stars and Stripes reports The allied coalition’s battle against the Islamic State in Afghanistan received a boost from another enemy Wednesday, when Taliban guerrillas drove ISIS fighters out of northern Jawzjan province.
More than 150 ISIS fighters surrendered to Afghan government forces after the Taliban launched an offensive against them, officials said. U.S. forces have also been conducting airstrikes against ISIS in the area for months.
“These people were surrounded by the Taliban for several days, but last night they managed to break free and surrender to government forces,” Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, Jawzjan’s police chief, told Stars and Stripes on Wednesday.
The surrender is a major setback for ISIS in Afghanistan, known as ISIS-Khorasan Province. The group emerged in the country’s east about four years ago and recently appeared to be growing stronger in the north.
In this case, the enemy of my enemy is still my enemy. Read the entire article at: Stars and Stripes Link
Category: Afghanistan
I mean, that’s good and all, but this shit (determining which of the two evils is greater at that particular moment) will just give you a headache after awhile.
5.56mm doesn’t discriminate, and thshe cheap enough that we can run a speyon them- everyone gets 3.
“Their” I don’t know what thshe is.🤔
Okay, Blaster – I do not know what a speyon is, but I want one.
They should be quickly executed. No quarter for Islamists.
At least they show finger control in their photo ops. But yeah, kill them anyway.
There are three flavors of ME bad guys: bad guys, badder guys, and baddest guys. What’s the flavor of the month this month?
Cheap thrills?
I don’t know what to think about this, because the Taliban is bad enough by itself, unless the Taliban have moderated themselves just a tad.
Maybe it’s like those WWII alliances with Stalin and the Chinese: a necessity at the time, but then Splitsville and the Cold War afterwards.
A brief addendum: I finally figured out why these guys are pointing at the ammo magazines.
There is a Freudian term for it.
Unfortunately, I can’t say it with a straight face.
Well, that and it also is a safety issue- keep your booger hook off of the bang switch until your sights are on the target.
So ISIS and Taliban both hate the west, and America specifically, don’t want western culture in the ME, don’t want westerners in the ME, believe in a totalitarian Islamic Sharia state and yet their tribalism and hatred for each other’s just ever so slightly different flavor of Islam overrides all that hatred and they fight each other.
I guess we can be grateful they’ve got so many closely held convictions that they hate us just a tad less than each other.
My sincerest hope is that they will go at each other so violently that nothing of either of them will be left behind.
Sure would make the world a safer place, wouldn’t it? At this point I’m just hoping we can end our involvement in these dumps before my kids become of enlistment age. I really don’t want to them to get an NDSM for the same war period I got one for.
You know, if you go back and look at real history, there has never really been any peace in the Middle East, whether it was as Mesopotamia, or under Cyrus or Xerxes or the Roman rule or Napoleon or — you name it, there was warfare.
I’m guessing that there will never be a true peace created unless it is forced on them.
I laughed at a news banner line the other day “Middle East Conflict Heating Up”. Cause it’s been such a nice, quiet place for 5,000 years. Just suddenly started getting violent!
It WILL be forced on them at armeggedon, there will be blood up to a horses bridal, “theirs”! (See revelation)
Let ‘em waste each other and make this world a more peaceful place!
Graphic content warning. Type into the search bar “surrender” to that extremely N.S.F.W website Crazyshit & see how ISIS end up surrendering to opposing forces.
The real p!sser? As I recall, both the Taliban and ISIS are followers of a relatively strict form of the Sunni branch of Islam. It’s the Iranians (and the Hazara in Afghanistan) that are Shi’ite.
And yet they’re fighting each other. Sounds to me more like a garden-variety power struggle between two wannabe despots than a religious war.
I thought they were both Sunni, but I long ago gave up trying to understand all of that when I was no longer subject to deployment. 🙂
Thanks, Hondo.
Hack can’t tell Shi’ite from shinola.
Makes targeting easier – bomb patterns can overlap ’cause ain’t none of ’em worth a damn anyway.
Pop some popcorn?
Not to nitpick, AW1Ed – but I think yer just a wee bit off in your start date for US military operations in Afghanistan, AKA Operation Enduring Freedom (US operations in Afghanistan were called that until 31 Dec 2014).
I know that from personal experience – I was in and out of Afghanistan well prior to October 2007. And I never worked for the CIA, so I wasn’t there prior to OEF. (smile)
I believe Oct 2001 is the date you meant to type above.
Certainly don’t doubt you, Hondo. Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan spans 2001–2014; Operation Freedom’s Sentinel which I was referring to is from 2014 to the present. It’s all the same place, just some different players.
So the whole mess started in 01 and continues to this day, making it the second longest war in American history.
Kill. Them. All. Don’t even bother to sort them out. No, wait. This is the religion of Peace. Bring all of our Boys and Girls home, and let them kill one another until there are none left. This has gone on long enough. Let me turn off my desire to rant switch.
Preach it Bother!
Well said. In this case, the enemy of my enemy is not my friend.
Build a dome over the entire place. Let them fight it out. Pay per view it. We’d make a fortune. I’d no longer have to sell hats/pins/vests/do-rags/car stickers to posers.
You’d just shift your business into balaclavas and turbans and shit.
There’d be a whole wave of posers over there who need your services…
I think your date is off by six years. The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001. It’s the trillion dollar gift that keeps giving.
See my Hondo reply, 5JC.