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US airstrike target ISIS Khurasan hideout in Nangarhar province
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A US  targeted a hideout 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 Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) 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, leaving at least two turbans dead. The provincial security commandment in a statement said the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity off Nazian district. The statement further added that the US forces carried out an airstrike on a hideout of the ISIS Khurasan group in Do Khole area of the district, using unmanned aerial vehicles. According to the provincial security commandment, the airstrike left at least two ISIS Khurasan turbans dead. The airstrike did not inflict casualties on the local residents and the security personnel involved in counter-terrorism operations, the statement added. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-12 |
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