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ISIL’s major plan to establish Khurasan province foiled by Afghan forces: MoD
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A major plan of 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 the Levant (ISIS) to establish the Khurasan province in Afghanistan has been foiled by the Afghan cops, the acting Minister of Defense Tariq Shah Bahrami said. Speaking during a presser, Bahrami said the ISIS terrorist group was attempting to establish the Khurasan province under its so called caliphate in Kot and Achin district of 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.. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... he said the Afghan forces managed to foil the plans of the terror group by taking immediate steps and launching counter-terrorism operations that inflicted heavy casualties to the fighters of the terror group. Bahrami further added that the Afghan cops have launched 12 large operations so far and dozens of medium and large operations while hundreds of According to the acting minister of defense, at least 2,500 gunnies of the terrorist group have been killed during the operations until now and around 800 others have sustained injuries. He also added that the loyalists of the terror group were also hit during the operations in Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Farah, Zabul, and Uruzgan provinces. In the meantime, he said the fighters of the group are only having sporadic and small operations in the named places but do not have the capability to launch large scale attacks. Posted by: Fred 2017-06-18 |
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