Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has said that Islamic State (IS) attacks will stop after the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
“We hope that those Afghans who are influenced by [the] IS… will give up their operations on seeing the formation of an Islamic government in the absence of foreigners,” Mujahid said
He further said that if these Afghans along with the IS “create a situation for war” and continue carrying out their operations, the “Islamic government (as the Taliban prefers to call themselves) … we will deal with them.”
The attack comes in the backdrop of a deadly explosion by the same group last week that killed more than 100 people, including 13 US soldiers.
The deadline to pull US-led forces out of Afghanistan is until Tuesday, ending the country’s longest war in its history.
