International Center for Peace Studies: What platforms have been provided for the presence of ISIS and Taliban in the country in the past months?

The history of the presence of Taliban and ISIS in Afghanistan is not completely the same. The Taliban had and still have a more natural presence in the tribal areas of Afghanistan like the tribal areas of Pakistan. ISIS is different in this regard. ISIS does not have an ethnic origin, and its reliance is mainly on two elements, ideology and economy. In some places, this group uses the intellectual persuasion of its audience, and in some places, it resorts to hiring elements that can be bought with money. Ideologically, there are similarities between the Taliban and ISIS, but in ISIS orientation, there is a thick load of Salafism in its Takfiri form, which is weaker than non-existent in the case of the Taliban. On the other hand, the Taliban is a movement with a relatively long history, whose third generation has entered the field today.

The first generation of this group was formed by a number of Deobandi-Jihadist mullahs in the last eighties who wanted to be present in front of the Ikhwani-Maududi groups. The Islamic Revolutionary Movement Party of Jamiat Ulama of Afghanistan, led by Maulvi Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, was the epitome of this way of thinking in those years. The second generation of Taliban, who later broke away from the jihadi parties in the nineties and officially created the Taliban movement, were mainly students of Jamiat Ulema madrassas, both Jamiat Ulema Afghanistan and Jamiat Ulema Pakistan, led by Fazlur Rahman and Samiul Haq. . But the third generation of Taliban was born in the years after the fall of this group, and it is younger than the second generation, which is now middle-aged. Each of these generations has similarities and differences. ISIS does not have such a historical background in Afghanistan. This group attracts extremist elements from the Taliban, Hizb ut-Tahrir, al-Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and similar groups, and sometimes from among people who have no desire to join any of the aforementioned groups and are only there for poverty and unemployment. They are ready to serve military groups.