The Taliban can be instrumental in defeating Islamic State in Afghanistan if it stops being a risk to the Kabul authorities and joins forces with the Afghan army, Russia’s particular envoy to the nation instructed RT.
The Western-backed Afghan authorities is in search of to make peace with the Taliban following 18 years of lethal animosity, however a deal between the bitter rivals may really go far past a ceasefire, in keeping with Zamir Kabulov, Russia’s long-serving presidential envoy for Afghanistan. The frequent enemy – particularly Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS) – is an element that will put them on the identical facet.
If the Taliban… joins palms with the Afghan army and police, they will get rid of [Islamic State] on Afghan soil.
Though unlikely in the intervening time, such a strong alliance “can crush any foreign terrorist organization on its soil,” Kabulov mentioned. The Taliban has demonstrated its distaste for IS militants when they started spreading in a few of Afghanistan’s provinces, however through the years the mutual hostility developed into open confrontation.
Some low-ranked Taliban commanders did defect to IS, however such instances had been occasional, the diplomat famous. In common, the militant motion declared Islamic State to be the “enemy of the Afghan people and Islam,” making any alliance between the 2 nearly unimaginable.