{"id":91346,"date":"2019-08-25T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T09:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/daesh-regrouping-and-recruiting-in-helmand\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:16:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:16:58","slug":"daesh-regrouping-and-recruiting-in-helmand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/daesh-regrouping-and-recruiting-in-helmand\/","title":{"rendered":"Daesh regrouping and recruiting in Helmand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"262\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/Aug\/25\/ISIS-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) &ndash; The Daesh terrorist organization has begun efforts to resurface in southern Helmand province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the provincial council chairman Attaullah Afghan the group is busy in regrouping and recruiting in the restive northern districts of the province. He said there is a pressing need to take actions in a bid to eliminate potential security threats from emerging in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Few years back, when Daesh surfaced in the province. An air strike killed its leader Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, which limited the group&rsquo;s prospects of spreading here.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the provincial governor Mohammad Yaseen Khan has rebuked reports about Daesh&nbsp;regrouping and recruiting in the province. He added intelligence reports suggest the group is not active here. The governor added even if Daesh wished to pose a threat, the security and defense forces would crush it.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have previously rejected reports about presence of pro-Daesh insurgents in areas under their clout. There has been no immediate reaction from the Taliban about the latest reports.<\/p>\n<p>Many parts in northern Helmand such as Sangin, Moosa Qala, Nauzad, Washer, Baghran and Nomesht have notable presence of the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LASHKARGAH (SW) \u2013 The Daesh terrorist organization has begun efforts to resurface in southern Helmand province.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}