Some former U.S.-trained Afghan soldiers and spies, abandoned after America's withdrawal and hunted by the Taliban, have enlisted in Islamic State
KABUL—Some former members of Afghanistan’s U.S.
-trained intelligence service and elite military units—now abandoned by their American patrons and hunted by the Taliban—have enlisted inThe number of defectors joining the terrorist group is relatively small, but growing, according to people who know these men, to former Afghan security officials and to the Taliban.
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