Afghan forces uncover IS hideout in Kabul district
KABUL — Afghan security forces uncovered an Islamic State hideout packed with explosives and suicide vests this week in a poor western neighbourhood of the capital, Kabul.
An intelligence official told The Associated Press that the IS refuge, hidden behind 10-foot green metal doors in the Qala-e-Wahid neighbourhood was packed with explosives, weapons and suicide vests when security forces found it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with his agency’s regulations.
He said the security forces were led to the house by an insurgent who was captured during Monday’s IS attack on a military academy in Kabul in which 11 soldiers died. Afghanistan’s IS affiliate, which calls itself Khorasan Province, claimed the attack in a statement carried by its Aamaq news agency.
From their safe house in Qala-e-Wahid the insurgents were plotting to carry out three more large attacks in Kabul, the intelligence official said without providing further details.