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7 ISIS militants killed, 12 wounded in East of Afghanistan
[Khaama] At least seven turbans affiliated with the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group’s offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, were killed during the operations in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan. The provincial police commandment said the turbans were killed or maimed during the past 24 hours in Chaparhar district. The operations were conducted in the vicinity of Latakpur and Kandi Bagh areas of Chaparhar district, the police commandment said, adding that the operations were conducted with the support of the air power. The Afghan cops also confiscated a RPG rocket launcher along with a vehicle belonging to the ISIS terrorist group, the police commandment added. The security officials are saying that the Silab-5 operations launched to eliminate ISIS holy warriors are successfully being conducted in the restive districts of Nangarhar. Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in eastern Afghanistan but the anti-government armed holy warrior groups have recently increased their insurgency activities in some parts of the province during the recent years. The Afghan cops have stepped up operations to eliminate the loyalists of the terrorist group as they attempt to expand their operations in this province and other parts of the country. The US forces based in Afghanistan also conduct regular The US forces based in Afghanistan said Friday "In the last nine months alone, Afghan and US counter-terrorism forces have killed the ISIS-K Emir Hafiz Sayed Khan and his replacement Abdul Hasib. They have also killed over a dozen of their top leadership. Since March, they have killed more than 750 ISIS-K fighters, recovering territory so that displaced Afghans have been able to return to their homes." Posted by: trailing wife 2017-05-22 |
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