Revealed: life inside ‘global villages’ of Islamic State jihadis in Afghanistan

Women recruited as brides for terrorist fighters give rare insight into international network that bombed airport

In 2017, a group of senior Arab fighters travelled from Syria to Afghanistan, to cement the links between Islamic State cells in the two areas.

They arrived in an international village, where the jihadi families included a blond German husband and wife and French, Russian, Chinese Uyghur and central Asian families, according to a rare testimony by an Uzbek woman who was a member the group.