On Tuesday, U.S. Army Colonel Sean Ryan, the spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the U.S.-led coalition against ISIS, made clear just how evil Islamic State is, even when they are in retreat:
Ryan added:
On Monday, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bomber who killed 14 people Monday outside a huge gathering in Kabul where top religious figures had just condemned suicide attacks as violations of Islam. Islamic State called religious figures “tyrant clerics” for their condemnation of suicide attacks.
The 2,000 Muslim clerics, calling themselves the Afghan Ulema Council, had issued an unprecedented religious edict that denied the religious basis for the insurgency in Afghanistan.