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    ISIS attacks Shiites, but Afghans resist push to make conflict religious

    Oct 05, 2017 4 minutes
    Afghans pass through a Kabul intersection where Shiite believers put up religious banners and flags to mark Ashoura, one of the holiest days of the Shiite calendar, on Sept. 30, 2017. Security was tight since Afghan Shiites have been targeted repeatedly by Islamic State attacks, especially during the Ashoura period.

    The Islamic State suicide bomber disguised himself as a shepherd as he approached his target: A Shiite mosque in north central Kabul.

    It was Friday, Sept. 29, on the eve of one of the holiest days on the Shiite calendar.

    Stopped by civilian guards who just days before had been issued five Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, expressly to defend Shiite sites during Ashura commemorations, the bomber detonated himself 200 yards from the mosque, killing six people.

    Without the guards’ vigilance, the toll in the latest ISIS attack on Afghanistan’s minority Shiite community could have been far higher. 

    Throughout Afghanistan’s 16-year war, the primary fight has been between the Taliban insurgency and the government and US and NATO forces, as well as Taliban

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