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An ISIS Jailbreak in Afghanistan
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An ISIS Jailbreak in Afghanistan

Is the Taliban secretly helping its jihadist rivals?

Thomas Joscelyn
Aug 7, 2020
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An ISIS Jailbreak in Afghanistan
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On Sunday, an ISIS suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into the front gate of the main prison in Jalalabad—the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province. Shortly after the so-called “martyr” detonated the bomb, his jihadist comrades stormed the prison from multiple sides. Their siege was finally put to an end on Monday, after the …

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