The Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-K), which has carried out a series of terrorist acts in Afghanistan, has now spread to nearly all of the country's provinces, according to the United Nations. Deborah Lyons, the UN Special Representative for Afghanistan, has stated that the Taliban are unable to stop IS-K, according to a report by Sputnik. She also criticised the Taliban's inability to halt the expansion of Islamic State Khorasan Province during a UN Security Council briefing on Afghanistan.

The Taliban announced on Tuesday that it has detained 11 persons accused of being linked with the Islamic State-Khorasan Province. The suspects were apprehended in the Afghan region of Daikundi. The suspects are from Helmand, Ghazni, and Uruzgan provinces, according to Taliban officials, according to Khaama Press. It was also stated that the suspects had seized weapons, and that an investigation was underway.

The arrests came after the Taliban recently detained one ISIS-K member and killed three others in Kandahar province during a large-scale operation. Officials from the Taliban said that four ISIS-K hideouts in the province had been destroyed. The Taliban's activities against the IS-K follow a string of bombings in the war-torn country after the insurgent group seized control of the country following the hurried withdrawal of the US and other Western soldiers from Afghanistan.

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