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Afghanistan
Drone strike leaves 11 Taliban militants dead in Nangarhar province
2015-12-09
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least eleven Taliban bandidos Death Eaters were killed in an Arclight airstrike 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, local officials said Tuesday.

The Arclight airstrike was carried out by coalition forces in Khogyani district of Nangarhar, provincial police front man Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal said, adding that the air raid did not incur any casualties to the local residents.

The Talibs group has not commented regarding the loss of their fighters so far.

Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed bandidos bandidos Death Eaters are actively operating in a number of its districts, including the restive Khogyani.

Extremists loyal to the newly emerged 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) are also actively operating in a number of Nangarhar districts where periodic terrorist related activities are reported along with festivities between ISIS affiliates and Talibs.

This comes as at least fifteen civilians and seven coppers sustained injuries in an kaboom in Surkh Rud district of Nangarhar province earlier on Monday morning.

The incident took place after a jacket wallah detonated a truck packed with explosives near the district administrative compound.

Posted by:Fred

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