Afghanistan: Taliban senior killed in ISIS attack on Kabul military hospital

The leader of their military forces Taliban in Kabul, The Hamdoula Mochlis, is among its victims attack committed yesterday Tuesday (2/11) by the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) against a military hospital in the Afghan capital, authorities said today.

Commander Mohlis was a member of the Haqqani network – the United States calls it a terrorist organization – and the Taliban special forces, known as “Bantry 313”. He is the most senior member of the Sunni fundamentalist movement who lost his life after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan on August 15.

“When we received the information that the hospital (…) was under attack, Molvi Hamdoula, the commander of the corps (Taliban military force) in Kabul, immediately rushed to the scene,” a Taliban spokesman explained. «We tried to stop him, but he laughed. “Later, we learned that he was killed in the fighting in the hospital,” he added.

Afghanistan: The timeline of the bloody attack

At least 19 people were killed and 50 others injured yesterday in an attack on Sardar Mohammad Daoud Khan, the country’s largest military hospital, claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan (IKH), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). the ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ.

The IKH, whose relationship with the Taliban is characterized by mutual hatred, clarified that it was committed by five of his fighters. One detonated explosives that had exploded at the entrance to the hospital before the others stormed the building. The Taliban assured that they put an end to the attack within 15 minutes, after helicopters transported members of their “special forces” to the roof of the building.

Eyewitnesses described horror scenes at the AFP, with staff and patients trying to lock themselves in rooms and wards on higher floors to escape the attackers.

Since taking power in mid-August, the Taliban, who say restoring security in Afghanistan is a priority after 20 years of war, has faced a wave of bloody attacks by the IKH, also a Sunni but even more extremist organization. The IKH has been targeting both Taliban fighters and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority in recent weeks.