ISIS Captures Tora Bora, Once Bin Laden’s Afghan Fortress
- 7 years ago
ISIS Captures Tora Bora, Once Bin Laden’s Afghan Fortress
Juma Gul said that The Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children,
Tora Bora said that There was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.
Hazrat Ali, a member of Parliament and a prominent warlord from the area who helped the Americans capture Tora Bora from Al Qaeda in 2001, said
that the offensive was prompted by the American decision to drop the so-called mother of all bombs on an Islamic State network of tunnels in Achin District in April.
Mr. Ali has extensive experience fighting against Al Qaeda in the area
but has also been accused of having helped bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in December 2001, reportedly betraying his American and Afghan allies as they closed in on the Qaeda leadership.
" Mr. Ali said. that Some 1,000 ISIS militants were gathered close to Tora Bora, to capture the area,
The American military said it had killed hundreds of Islamic State fighters in the Achin District
area, including the "emir" of the Islamic State in Khorasan, Sheikh Abdul Hasib.
Juma Gul said that The Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children,
Tora Bora said that There was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.
Hazrat Ali, a member of Parliament and a prominent warlord from the area who helped the Americans capture Tora Bora from Al Qaeda in 2001, said
that the offensive was prompted by the American decision to drop the so-called mother of all bombs on an Islamic State network of tunnels in Achin District in April.
Mr. Ali has extensive experience fighting against Al Qaeda in the area
but has also been accused of having helped bin Laden escape from Tora Bora in December 2001, reportedly betraying his American and Afghan allies as they closed in on the Qaeda leadership.
" Mr. Ali said. that Some 1,000 ISIS militants were gathered close to Tora Bora, to capture the area,
The American military said it had killed hundreds of Islamic State fighters in the Achin District
area, including the "emir" of the Islamic State in Khorasan, Sheikh Abdul Hasib.