What is the strategy of Asian allies in the fight against ISIS?
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
The goal of international terrorism in the context of Afghanistan (Taliban, Al-Qaeda, twenty terrorist groups and the ISIS-K) is a multi-purpose goal that targets the East, West and North. It is for this purpose that terrorist bases have been established in the north, northeast, east and west of Afghanistan. The main focus is on creating operational units that keep the Eastern terrorism machine active.
The palace of eastern terrorism in Afghanistan must be overthrown. If not, the tsunami of targeted attacks will hit the defense security walls of the region. The connected circles are the same Taliban who have become the platform for the operational phase of these units with the help of state terrorism. At least the evidence has turned this issue into an undeniable proof.
The terrorist groups that operate in Afghanistan have all the facilities of a government, and all those terrorist groups in the north operate with a strategic vision in a platform that the Taliban has provided. When we say that their next look is to target the security wall of the region, it means Trans-Afghanistan strategic vision, which is based on international terrorism.
As in the past, ISIS is a tactic of the warring trans-regional powers in the region, which is advancing a program under the theory of destabilization in Asia. Activating the intellectual skulls of ISIS, trying to expand the targeting circles and creating the frightening specter of this self-made phenomenon, under the supervision of the Taliban intelligence agency, shows that ISIS is not for Afghanistan; rather than is a useful and well-designed model for the region to transform the regional security dynamic into chaos.
In the meantime, Tora Bora caves are the main center of al-Qaeda in collusion with the Haqqani network, a powerful military arm and deadly suicide gangs on the direct path of the Taliban's plan, and Badakhshan and the roads leading to Chitral, Pakistan, will be the center of Daesh, known as Khorasan, to destabilize the north and the axis of the Hindu Kush.
These ares, will be aimed at uniting the dormant units of the anti-terrorist forces or the so-called resistance. This plan can be understood from the performance of the Taliban, the operational plans of Al-Qaeda and the Taliban's self-made ISIS-K. But the central perception of the current interactions is that in a larger view, this terrorism embedded in Afghanistan should lead the regional security dynamics to the path of tension until; either the Asian powers will be forced to fight and spend beyond their operational and defensive lines, or they will be willing to deal with the West in other areas.
But this calculation is basically wrong by the region. From the point of view of intelligence, combat, creating a defense shield and the facilities and platform available in this geography, this program will fail as in the past. Tajikistan and the Central Asia, China, Russia and Iran, are essentially an axis to counter eastern-terrorism. Although the current decision between them is a state of suspension, tactical interaction and containment of the challenge inside, but the main platform of confrontation will happen in the way of the Hindu Kush, the north and the central area with the center of the west close to Iran.
The Asian powers will continue with the strategy of interaction and soft control regarding the Taliban until the implementation phase of the hardware operations of the terrorist units comes. In that case, the region has no choice but to deal with it through local capacities. In this case, the anti-Taliban mentality of the Tajiks in the north and northeast, who are under the most intense suppression of the Taliban, provides the ideology of this decisive war.
This is where the region has mechanisms to deal with the possible situation that can solve the crisis in crisis management. Naturally, in this direction, there is no other option available to the Asian allies except hardware solutions. Therefore, it is for this reason that the efforts to create reserve units in Iran, which are mainly special units of the former army, police and national security of the republic and have taken refuge in Iran from the Taliban, strengthen the axis of resistance in Dushanbe as a big umbrella for the next phase of war. In this regard, the creation of urban operational detachments and increasing the level of attacks on the main bases of the Taliban will be the core and basis of the long-term strategy of the Asian allies.
Because these Asian allies know very well that the situation is moving towards costly instability and before hard containment, would not be wise to try a soft containment strategy from within. But the problem is that the available time is quickly lost and terrorism is lurking with its horns and claws to take prey from this. The blood-dripping prey that tears the veins and arteries of the region's security.
