- Going to Afghanistan's Nangahar province was a bit worrying, simply because the province is known to have fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). ISIL claims part of the province, calling it Wilayet Khorasan. The armed group has already carried out attacks, including a suicide bombing against the Pakistan consulate in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, about two weeks ago. Nevertheless we headed there, because this is an important story. We arranged to be embedded with the Afghan army...
