IS beheads 15 of its own fighters in Afghanistan

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IS beheads 15 of its own fighters in Afghanistan

JALALABAD: Islamic State beheaded 15 of its own fighters due to infighting in Afghanistan?s eastern province of Nangarhar, officials said, while a separate suicide attack on Thursday tore into a crowd in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, killing at least eight.
The two incidents underline the insecurity and lawlessness across Afghanistan, where thousands of civilians have been killed or wounded this year amid unrelenting violence involving militant groups including Islamic State and the Taliban. In a bloody day for the province, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing at least eight people at a meeting of supporters of a police commander who was sacked for illegal land grabbing.
There was no claim of responsibility and no immediate indication of who was behind the attack on the crowd in Jalalabad, which had gathered to demand the reinstatement of the commander, who survived the attack. A spokesman for the Jalalabad hospital confirmed eight people had been killed and 15 wounded.
Nangarhar, on the porous border with Pakistan, has become a stronghold for Islamic State, generally known as Daesh in Afghanistan, which has grown to become one of the country?s most dangerous militant groups since it appeared around the start of 2015.
Attaullah Khogyani, the provincial governor?s spokesman, said the 15 Islamic State fighters were executed after a bout of infighting in the group, which has become notorious for its brutality. The killings occurred in the Surkh Ab bazaar of Achin district.
US strikes on Taliban opium labs won?t work, say Afghan farmers: As US and Afghan forces pound Taliban drug factories this week, farmers in the country?s largest opium producing-province and narcotics experts say the strategy just repeats previous failed efforts to stamp out the trade.
US Army General John Nicholson, who heads Nato-led forces in Afghanistan, announced on Monday a new strategy of attacking opium factories, saying he wanted to hit the Taliban ?where it hurts, in their narcotics financing?.
Critics say the policy risks further civilian casualties and turning large swathes of the population dependent on poppy cultivation against the Afghan government. ?The Taliban will not be affected by this as much as ordinary people,? said Mohammad Nabi, a poppy farmer in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand, the heartland of opium production. ?Farmers are not growing poppies for fun. If factories are closed and businesses are gone, then how will they provide food for their families??
Opium production in Afghanistan reached record highs this year, up 87 percent, according to the United Nations. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said last week that output of opium from poppy seeds in Afghanistan, the world?s main source of heroin, stood at around 9,000 metric tons in 2017, worth an estimated $1.4 billion on leaving the farms.
In Helmand, cultivation area increased 79 percent. Publicising the new strategy, which he said was open-ended, Nicholson showed one video of an F-22 fighter jet dropping 250-pound bombs on two buildings, emphasising that a nearby third building was left unscathed. US troops have long been accused of causing unnecessary collateral damage and civilian deaths. ?They are largely compelled to grow the poppy and this is kind of a tragic part of the story,? said Nicholson.

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