Ten Taliban fighters beheaded by Islamic State in Afghanistan

Terrorists affiliated with theIslamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) terrorist group's offshoot inAfghanistan,ISIS Khurasan, have beheaded 10 Taliban fighters in the northernJawzjanprovince.

IS fighters and Taliban militants have been engaged in intense fighting over the past several weeks for consolidating their positions in parts of Darzab district, butIslamic Statefighters captured Aqbalaq village in Darzab district and arrested 10 Taliban fighters and beheaded them, Xinhua reported.

Neither Taliban nor ISIS has made a comment on the report.

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Darzab district and parts of Jowzjan province which is 390 km north of Kabul, have been the scene ofTalibanand IS activities over the past more than one year.

In another incident, as many as fourteen militants ISIS militants have been killed in easternNangarharprovince.

The 201st Silab Corps of theAfghan National Armyconfirmed that fourteenISISmilitants were killed mysteriously in Khogyani district.