ISIS-K defensive fighting positions targeted by airstrikes in Momand Valley, Achin District, Nangahar Province, Afghanistan, October 19, 2017. US Army
Business Insider: ISIS wants to be as dangerous as the Taliban — but it's not even close
* ISIS-K and the Taliban conducted a number of high-profile attacks at the end of January that killed over a hundred people in Afghanistan.
* The attacks may be part of a competition between ISIS-K and the Taliban to become the dominant terror group.
* While high-profile attacks are expected to continue, the reality is that ISIS-K is more of a nuisance than a strategic threat and the Taliban remains the dominant jihadist force.
A number of high-profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.
An attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul on January 20 that killed at least 40 people and an ambulance bombing in Kabul on January 27 that killed 103 were claimed by the Taliban.
An attack on Save the Children's Jalalabad office on January 24 that killed six people and an attack on Kabul's military academy on January 29 that killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers were claimed by ISIS' Afghan branch — known as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant — Khorasan Province (ISIS-K).
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WNU Editor: No one should never underestimate the Islamic State.
