The Americans in Afghanistan have rejected Moscow's concerns about an alleged presence of ISIS in the country, asking Moscow and Tehran to "instead support the Afghan government and not the Taliban". This was reported by the Tolo TV in Kabul. Recently, Russian Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov claimed that the followers of the 'Caliph' Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would be "many thousands", also from Syria and Iraq, and that they would receive logistical help from helicopters "of unknown origin", but with clear allusion to complicity of the United States itself. Speaking with journalists in the Afghan capital, the commander of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, replied that the Russian assessments "are exaggerated" and that ISIS militants "are only 1.500, in Nangarhar, Kunar, and in an area of Jawzjan ”. The senior official finally added that in his opinion Russia and Iran should “support the government of Kabul, not the Taliban, to help defeat ISIS.
