Russian Foreign Ministry: The number of ISIS militants in Afghanistan has increased 3 times in a year

Zamir Kabulov, Director of the Second Department of Asia of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the number of ISIS militants in Afghanistan has increased after the Taliban movement took control of this country.

Kabulov, who is also the Russian President's envoy to Afghanistan, added that the number of militants of this terrorist organization in Afghanistan has increased by three times since the Taliban came to power, and has now reached 6000 militants.

The Russian diplomat continued: "As far as we know, the approximate number of ISIS there has reached 6000. As you remember, after the Taliban came to power and its harsh measures against ISIS, their number was about two thousand people. This means an increase in their number 3 times. This is the most important aspect. Negative in the development of the Afghan situation, because the goal of ISIS, as in the past, is to destabilize not only Afghanistan itself, but also its neighbors.