Taliban Give Islamic State Ultimatum in Afghanistan Fight
A Taliban fighter in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan in 2010.
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Afghan Taliban Deputy Leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour told Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to fight alongside his organization, or face more attacks.
“There is no room for a parallel Islamic army in Afghanistan,” Mansour wrote to al-Baghdadi Tuesday, according to an e-mailed statement from Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi. “Jihad against American occupiers and their Afghan mercenaries must be held under one flag, one leadership and one command.”