The islamic state captured men, women and children from the yazidi minority group during its dead rampage through northwester rack in august. Islamic state fighters killed scores, if not hundreds of yesidi men before carrying off their relatives. They were even harsher in terms of enforcing islamic law in daily life. And they were also very aggressive regionally. The only sofa lining in all this is thet talabon will be paying even more attention to this.
The attack outside the Kabul airport on Thursday was perpetrated by an extremist group that doesn't think the Taliban is extreme enough.
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