Is Pentagon assessment of ISIS in Afghanistan is correct
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WASHINGTON: Director of Defense Press Operation Pentagon, Captain Jeff Davis on Tuesday said that Islamic State in its current position in Afghanistan is not a threat to the US.
“It is continuing to be a challenge, but at this point I don’t see it growing. I see it, if anything, struggling to maintain what little hold it has”, Captain Davis responded to the question at a briefing for the foreign correspondents held at Foreign Press Center.
“We have seen this affiliate grow in Afghanistan, called ISIS-K or ISIS Khorasan Province. But we have focused a lot of effort on it, and you’ve certainly seen that covered widely in the press, both with airstrikes and operations on the ground in conjunction with the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces’, Said Cap Davis.Davis maintained that United States’ main objective is to prevent Afghanistan from being used as a safe haven for terrorists to attack the US and its allies, and the country remains focused on the defeat of al-Qaida and its associates as well as the defeat of ISIS Khorasan.
Captain Davis recalled that that the Taliban tried eight times last year to overtake a provincial capital in Afghanistan but “failed every single one of those times” and they have yet to do it successfully this year as well.
