‘Get Rid Of This Menace’: Biden Admin Reportedly Considering Working With Taliban To Wipe Out ISIS

The Biden administration is reportedly considering an unusual move — working with the Taliban to fight a branch of ISIS in Afghanistan, NBC News reported on Wednesday.

Relations between the West and the Taliban, the Islamist militia group governing over Afghanistan, have seldom ever been particularly strong or trusting. But the U.S. and the Taliban share a common enemy in ISIS-K and concerns over its alarming resurgence this year, prompting the Biden administration to discuss options in working with the Taliban to track down and ultimately destroy the terror group, two people familiar with discussions and a former U.S. official told NBC.

“There’s an internal debate about whether to try to work more with the Taliban,” a former senior U.S. official told NBC.

ISIS-K (Islamic State’s Khorasan Province) is one of the several arms of the ISIS terror network but was widely seen by the West as incapable of carrying out attacks, even if it wanted to, according to NBC. The calculus changed this year, however, as ISIS-K launched mass terrorist attacks on both Iran and Russia in January and March, killing hundreds of people; the group has attempted attacks in Europe this year but has been stopped.

The U.S. has limited ability to gather intelligence on ISIS-K’s moves in the region, given that the Biden administration evacuated U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021 in what was widely seen as a botched withdrawal