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| Afghan president: ISIS being wiped out in Afghanistan |
| 2016-03-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani ...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. .. said on Sunday that the ISIS group has been defeated in the eastern parts of the country, where it had taken over some remote districts. Speaking at the opening of parliament, Ghani said Afghan forces had dislodged ISIS loyalists from regions 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.. province bordering Pakistain. "Afghanistan will be their graveyard," he said in an address broadcast live on national television. ISIS has had a presence in Afghanistan for more than a year. Officials have said most snuffies calling themselves ISIS are disaffected Taliban fighters. Afghan forces have claimed victory following a 21-day operation in the Achin and Shinwar districts of Nangarhar, claiming at least 200 snuffies killed, a provincial official told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Achin and Shinwar are among a number of districts in the remote mountainous regions along the Pakistain border that were overtaken by ISIS loyalists in recent months. Operations against the snuffies included "The aim of the operation in Nangarhar was to root out IS from the area," said Afghan Army Lt. Col Sharin Aqa, a front man for the 201 Corps. The operation was aided by local residents who set up checkpoints to help maintain security in their villages. These so-called "local uprisings" had supplemented the Afghan forces, which have been stretched since the drawdown in 2014 of the international combat mission, he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Cause they're bad for (the opium) business. Incentives, man, incentives. BTW, the ROE for the drug lords is a lot looser than for coalition forces in dealing with ISIS. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-03-07 08:48 |