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US conduct more airstrikes on ISIS hideouts in East of Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] The US military has carried out more  s on ISIS hideouts in eastern NangarharThe 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 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army in the East said the latest airstrikes were carried in Nazian district. The source further added that the raids were carried out in Sah-e-Bar area and as a result one member of the terror group was killed. The anti-government armed holy warrior groups have not commented regarding the report so far. Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... regime but the anti-government armed holy warrior groups have been attempting to expand their insurgency activities in some of the remote parts of the province during the recent years. Both the Taliban and faceless myrmidons 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.... terror group have presence in some districts of Nangarhar In the meantime, the Silab Corps said the Afghan cops discovered eight Improvised Explosive Devices from Nangarhar, Laghman  ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.and Kapisa provinces. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-01 |
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