INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday that the threat of Daesh still exists in Afghanistan and that the group
is targeting the Islamic Emirate.Kirby said this in a press conference in reply to a question about Wednesday&s attack on Acting Minister of
Refugees and Repatriation Khalil-ur-Rahman Haqqani in Kabul, which was claimed by Daesh.&I think that — look, we&re just getting
information about this. I think it&s a little too soon for me to — to make a comment. The only thing I would say is that we recognize
— and we said so at the time — that there was still an ISIS threat inside Afghanistan. And clearly, they have set their sights on the
Taliban (IEA),& Kirby said.He said that the US maintains and has improved, since withdrawal from Afghanistan, the ability to conduct
over-the-horizon counterterrorism operations anywhere in the world &and we&ve proven our ability to do that, including in places like
Afghanistan since we left.&According to him, the US State Department has so far issued 76,000 Special Immigrant Visas for Afghan partners
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