On August 26, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) released the 13th issue of their magazine, Voice of Khurasan, produced by Al-Azaim Foundation. In this issue, they include an article titled “After a Year the US is still Licking its Wounds”. They begin the article by explaining that the Taliban did not fall into apostasy at once, rather it was a slow process. They blame the Pakistani ISI, Qatar, Russia, Iran, and other countries for leading them into “kufr” while testing the Taliban’s loyalties to these state sponsors. They then talk of these states handing the Taliban power after it passed those tests. The Islamic State describes the one-year-old Taliban regime as the “US boots on the ground” that fights against ISKP.
Islamists against the Talibans - oh the irony!