The Taliban are trying to destroy the "Islamic State", they retaliated with bombings
The Taliban have launched an operation against IS hideouts in southern Afghanistan, officials said today, following escalating bloody attacks by the group in recent weeks.
The operation against IS-K began around midnight in at least four areas of Kandahar province and continued into the morning, said Taliban provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar Mohammadi.
Local media quoted a Taliban official as saying there had been an explosion in the western suburbs of Kabul this morning, but there were no casualties.
In the three months since the Taliban came to power, IS-K has been active in Jalalabad, Kunduz, Kandahar and Kabul. Last month, the group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in Kandahar that killed at least 60 people and injured scores more.