Islamic State probes Afghan Taliban's weak points
Islamic State's continuous violence is aimed at keeping the Taliban busy and creating schisms to undermine them
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- Probing Taliban vulnerabilities
- Hard-line credentials
- Preventing schism and defections
- Managing the salafis
- Attention-seeking attacks
- Selling sectarianism
- Central Asian jihad
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