The attack included a suicide bombing and an invasion of the hospital by gunmen, who shot a number of wounded Taliban fighters in their hospital beds. On Tuesday, it claimed responsibility for an attack on the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan hospital, the largest hospital in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, which killed 25 people and wounded more than a dozen others. ISIS-K is engaged in a brutal campaign of terrorist bombings against civilian targets aimed at destabilizing the Taliban government. In its report, the Journal noted that “Importantly, these new recruits bring to Islamic State critical exp-ertise in intelligence-gathering and warfare techniq-ues, potentially strengthening the extremist organization’s ability to contest Taliban supremacy.” And I think the Islamic State is accepting them.” In a November 1 interview with Foreign Policy, Rahmatullah Nabil, former chief of the US-backed Afghan regime’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), reported the same phenomenon: “Of the ANDSF who were left behind, I am receiving reports from different areas that, in order to have some protection, they see the Islamic State as a better platform for themselves.

The Wall Street Journal this week reported on the influx of these US-trained forces into ISIS-K, citing unnamed Taliban leaders, officials of the ousted US puppet regime and people who knew agents and soldiers who had joined the group. Intelligence agents and elite counterinsurgency troops trained by the CIA and the Pentagon during the 20-year US occupation of Afghanistan are reportedly joining the Islamic State-Khorsan (ISIS-K).

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