This is a series of CBSi and the world. I'm John Bachelor with my colleagues

Sesena County of the Hudson Institute and Bill Rajo of the Long War Journal at the Foundation for the Defense of

Democracy's. Bill I begin with a KIA of ISIS. Very little is known, you tell me. What do we know?

Yes, John, over the weekend, the Taliban, it's what they call their special forces.

We documented their training of these groups. A lot of them are part of the

Hakani network, a key group of the Taliban. They killed a Islamic state of, they

call him, the Taliban are calling me a key leader. He was basically supposedly the leader for the

Islamic State in a district called Aachen which is right on the border of

Pakistan in Nangahar province in Afghanistan. His name is Zakirula is also known as Abu Cher.

That's all the information we have on and John.

Of course the Islamic State and the Taliban, they're bitter enemies over the

the Taliban doesn't play ball the way the Islamic State wants them to. They

won't swear allegiance to the Taliban's a mere the Taliban is in the

al-Qaeda camp so there's you know a couple thousand fighters and or more from

the Islamic States course on province that operates in Afghanistan as well as Pakistan and

Central Asia and India. Afghanistan is a key note for the Islamic State

Horizontal province that and the Taliban know, I think the bigger story here, John, isn't this commander and who was he, but, you know, this is part of the Taliban. They're trying to convince the world that they are the reliable

counterterrorism partner in Afghanistan because they target the Islamic

state. They do it not because of world security as a matter of fact if

the Taliban and the Islamic State weren't enemies. They have no problems with

Islamic State fighters operating from Afghanistan, but they're trying to show the world again that they are a

reliable counter-terrorism partner. Oh and by the way you should give us money to

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