AFGANISTHAN'S TALIBAN-ISIS CRISIS: Suicide Bomber Kills Over 100 People in a Shia Mosque

In Afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacked a Shia mosque. More than a hundred people were murdered, with numerous others suffering serious injuries. Afghanistan continues to be terrorized by the Taliban-ISIS conflict. The United States addresses the attack.

In an attack on a Gozar-e-Sayed Abad Shiite Mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz during a prayer service, more than 100 people were murdered. At least 100 individuals were injured as a result of the accident. The attack took place during Friday prayers.

For prayers, some 300 people gathered at the church when the blast took place. Children were among the deceased. According to authorities, the bomber detonated his bomb in front of the mosque after noon. Many people were sent to the hospital with significant injuries. According to the AFP, the death toll might rise.

Several bleeding victims were on the floor, according to graphic pictures published on social media that could not be authenticated right away. In photographs, smoke plumes can be seen rising into the air over Kunduz.

Attacks on the minority Shia Muslims are on the rise in Afghanistan. A bomb blast near a mosque in Kabul has killed at least five people. On August 26, 13 U.S. soldiers and 169 Afghans were killed in an IS attack near Kabul airport.

Shiites represent about 20% of the country's population. Many of them are Hazara, an ethnic group in Afghanistan that has been oppressed for a long time. Shiite Muslims have been targeted by Sunni extremists who see them as outcasts and sinners, and the most brutal attacks have been made on them, with rallies destroyed, hospitals bombed, and passengers attacked. 

The Islamic State takes the responsibility.

The Jihadi organization Islamic State claimed credit for the explosion after it occurred. Statements were distributed via telegram groups, and the IS claimed that the bomb was targeted specifically at Shiite groups.

The Islamic State are the rivals of the terror group, the Taliban, who currently hold power in Afghan. The Islamic States' attack on the Shiite population in Afghanistan, which has a majority Sunni population, also aims at the Taliban in order to create a continuous crisis in the Taliban rule.

Since the Taliban lost control in Afghanistan, ISIS has intensified its attacks against the Taliban. The Taliban attacked ISIS and destroyed an ISIS cell last week, just after an ISIS strike in Kabul that killed five people.

The US addressed the attack as an "enormous tragedy".

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki at daily press conference said "Obviously, any loss is an enormous tragedy, and our heart goes out to the families who lost loved ones," addressing the attack. 

Paki also added,  "We, of course, will continue to work in partnership with leaders in the region to work to get partners who stood by our side out of Afghanistan, who want to depart. That's something that there's ongoing work on, as we speak,".

At the end of August, the United States Armed Forces concluded their departure from Afghanistan. As a result, the number of ISIS assaults is on the rise. It was difficult for ISIS to undertake such assaults when US troops were stationed in Afghanistan.