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USA rknar med att talibanerna tar hand ISIS:U.S. Bets on Old Foe Taliban to Fight New ISIS Threat in Afghanistan
As the last foreign troops depart Afghanistan, the United States is counting on its old foe, the Taliban, to keep the new threat posed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) at bay as the country teeters toward an uncertain future.https://www.newsweek.com/us-bets-old...nistan-1609873
The concept reflects a new and stark reality, some 20 years after the U.S. and its allies first entered Afghanistan as part of a massive intervention against both Al-Qaeda and its Taliban host in the wake of 9/11.
But as efforts to shore up Afghan security forces against a Taliban rebellion proved fruitless and the regional threat landscape shifted drastically over the past two decades, the prospect of a resurgent Taliban leading the local fight against ISIS, identified by the U.S. as a far greater global threat, has grown increasingly accepted in official circles.
"I think that is the general consensus from most people here in the military, on our military and as well as the civilian side," a Defense Department official speaking on the condition of anonymity told Newsweek, "that the Taliban did not like ISIS in their area, almost to the point where they are more prejudiced against ISIS, and their ideologies, and they're working as hard as they can to remove them."