which is today's video sponsor as they have a good documentary called isis terrorism NUMBER_TOKEN which looks at the story behind isis as well as several of their most famous attacks that they committed across the world particularly it focuses on several of the attacks in france and it's a french documentary as these have been very symbolic of the period when isis rose to power in the middle east and also sought to attack targets in europe if you go to the link in the description or simply type URL_TOKEN history with hilbert you can find this and thousands of other documentaries on history and current affairs on magellan tv a former commander of the afghan taliban abdullah raof khadim also swore his allegiance along with his men to the islamic state and this is one of the reasons why things immediately get off to the wrong foot with isis k because they are actively taking men and weapons and commanders away from the taliban's different factions now most of the taliban are active in the region of the fata the federally administered tribal area in afghanistan within afghanistan several groups wore allegiance to this new islamic caliphate in different regions in the southwest you had in helmand and farah province they were there they were also active in the east of the country in logar kunar and nagaha provinces and later they would spread out into zabul as well now the war really started in on the second of february NUMBER_TOKEN when an isis commander in logar called abdul ghani was shot down and killed by isis militants this was followed in may NUMBER_TOKEN with fighting in the pharah province between isis militants and the taliban although the isis militants seem to have been worse off in this affair as this region is one of the strongholds of the taliban in afghanistan another leader of the taliban in afghanistan leading a small group in nagaha province maldi abbas was subsequently taken prisoner by insurgents in that part of the country and in june NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN captured taliban fighters were subsequently beheaded which was filmed by islamic state and used as propaganda by november NUMBER_TOKEN the arrival of isis had brought about some serious infighting within the taliban factions in afghanistan and pakistan part of this came because that summer they had announced the death of the founder and leader of the taliban mullah omar who had actually been dead for two years but they'd kept the news hidden this caused a divide within the taliban as many were upset that they'd kept this news hidden for so long and also many disagreed with the new choice of leader which was akhtar mansour now one of those who disagreed was called mansoor da dulla and he was the son of a famous afghan commander who had died back in the late NUMBER_TOKENs and he actually split off and decided to declare his allegiance to the islamic state rather than continuing on for the taliban this occurred in the zabal province and led to serious infighting between his group fighting for the islamic state and the loyalists who continued to fight for the taliban
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN which is today's video sponsor as they have a good documentary called isis terrorism NUMBER_TOKEN which looks at the story behind isis as well as several of their most famous attacks that they committed across the world particularly it focuses on several of the attacks in france and it's a french documentary as these have been very symbolic of the period when isis rose to power in the middle east and also sought to attack targets in europe if you go to the link in the description or simply type URL_TOKEN history with hilbert you can find this and thousands of other documentaries on history and current affairs on magellan tv a former commander of the afghan END_SPONSOR_TOKEN