The Taliban promised to bring peace, but fear reigns above all in the eastern city of Jalalabad, hit by Islamic State group attacks and reprisals, and with corpses appearing mysteriously in rivers.
In the evening, the inhabitants of the trade hub in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province hurry home before night falls and the shooting starts, fearing both IS and the indiscriminate retaliation of the Taliban.
The biggest ideological difference between the two Islamist groups is that the Taliban sought only an Afghanistan free of foreign forces, whereas IS wants an Islamic caliphate stretching from Turkey to Pakistan and beyond. Islamic State "no longer exists" in the city or rest of the province, says the official, who goes by the name "Dr. Bashir"."These days, there is at least one attack a week," said Sajjad, a Taliban unit leader, adding his men are on high alert "at all times".
Macabre discoveries feed the suspicion -- such as the bodies found last month along a canal in the suburbs of Jalalabad. And while he says IS does not yet have the capacity to operate beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan, "Western countries are watching the threat and taking it seriously."
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