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Senior Afghan ISIL members killed in US air strike
[Hurriyet Daily News] Several senior 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) members in Afghanistan -- including a provincial leader -- have been killed in a United States air strike, an official said on Aug. 13. General John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said Aug. 10’s strike killed Abdul Rahman, who he claimed was a provincial leader in ISIS’s Afghanistan branch, known as ISIS-Khorasan Province (IS-K). Rahman’s death comes a month after U.S. forces killed Abu Sayed, the head of IS-K. That marked the third time in a year that the affiliate had lost its leader. "The death of Abdul Rahman deals yet another blow to the big shotship of ISIS-K," Nicholson said in a statement. "He found out just like those before him that there are no safe havens in Afghanistan. We will hunt them down until they are no longer a threat to the Afghan people and the region," he added. Nicholson said that three other senior IS-K members had been killed in the strike in Darah-Ye Pech district in the northeastern province of Kunar. He identified Rahman as IS-K’s provincial emir in Kunar and said he had been a "primary candidate" to succeed Sayed as the affiliate’s leader following the latter’s death, also in an air strike in Kunar, on July 11. U.S. forces have regularly been targeting ISIS fighters in Afghanistan since the hard boyz gained a foothold in the east of the country in 2015. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-14 |
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