Will Trump’s Taliban deal boost ISIS in Afghanistan?

Published January 31, 2019 4:19pm ET



Republican lawmakers are worried President Trump’s tentative deal with the Taliban to end the Afghanistan War is ignoring the new danger posed by an Islamic State offshoot group that’s on the rise.

“Everybody’s talking about the wrong thing,” a Republican congressman who recently traveled to Afghanistan told the Washington Examiner. “They’re talking about the Taliban. They need to be talking about ISIS.”

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