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Left behind after US withdrawal, some former Afghan spies and soldiers turn to Islamic State


Left behind after US withdrawal, some former Afghan spies and soldiers turn to Islamic State



Some former members of Afghanistan’s U.S.-trained intelligence service and elite military units—now abandoned by their American patrons and hunted by the Taliban—have enlisted in the only force currently challenging the country’s new rulers: Islamic State.

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