ISIL in Afghanistan top of agenda during Xi, Putin talks

The forthcoming negotiations between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at a Eurasian security summit in Moscow later this week will focus on the threat that the Takfiri ISIL militant group poses in war-torn Afghanistan.

"Due to the spillover effect of the ISIL terrorist activities, Afghanistan now faces a grim security situation," Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping told reporters in Beijing on Monday.

He added that leaders from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states "will certainly have in-depth discussions on the Afghan issue.”

"And they will talk further about how to respond to the security situation there," Cheng pointed out.

The Russian city of Ufa will host the 15th summit of leaders of the SCO, which groups China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, on Thursday and Friday. It will be preceded by a meeting of leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.

On June 16, the Taliban warned ISIL ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”

This file photo shows ISIL Takfiri militants at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

The militant group asked the ISIL leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan by withdrawing his support for those elements that are recruiting young militants in the so-called Taliban strongholds.

ISIL released a new video on June 13 apparently showing the beheading of a Taliban militant commander in Afghanistan.

The victim, identified as Saad al-Imarati, had reportedly switched his allegiance from ISIL back to the Taliban before his purported decapitation on “spying” charges in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.

A screen grab taken from a video released by the ISIL terrorist group on June 13, 2015 purportedly shows Taliban commander Saad al-Imarati.

ISIL controls parts of Syria and Iraq, and has been carrying out horrific acts of violence against all communities in the two countries. The terrorist group has recently extended its raids to Libya in North Africa.

Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity years after soldiers from the United States and its allies marched through the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.

Even though the onslaught overthrew Taliban, many areas across Afghanistan still face violence.

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