ISIS group recruits many foreign fighters in Afghanistan: MoD

Afghanistan Ministry of Defense (MoD) has said that most of the  Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are foreign fighters who are mainly Pakistani citizens that enters Afghanistan from the other side of the Durand Line.

MoD spokesman has declared that the operations against the Daesh group are ongoing with great achievements and the group suffers heavy losses.

“We seriously fight against whoever activates against peace and stability of Afghanistan. We have killed many of ISIS key commanders and our operations will continue until the opposition groups fully cleared from the country,” said Dawlat Waziri, spokesman of MoD.

For months, the Afghan government played down the threat of a looming ISIS presence in Afghanistan.

According to a report to the UN Security Council, nearly 30 thousand foreign fighters were recruited in the ISIS ranks. They came from 100 countries around the world including countries that had been untouched by the activity of terrorist groups such as Chile and Finland and mainly Pakistanis in Afghanistan.

The latest ISIS bombing in Afghanistan was a joint suicide bombing that killed dozens of people during a peaceful demonstration by a minority group in capital, Kabul.