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Afghanistan
8 ISIS loyalists killed in an airstrike in east of Afghanistan
2016-05-16
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 8 loyalists 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in east of Afghanistan.

According a local security official, the Arclight airstrike was carried out 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, targeting a vehicle of the loyalists of the terror group.

The official speaking on the condition of anonymity further added that the raid was carried out in Achin district which was once a stronghold of the terror group.

The holy warriors were inside the car and were on their way to conduct terrorist activities when they were targeted, the official said, adding that the local residents did not suffer any casualties in the raid.

He did not elaborate further on who carried out the Arclight airstrike but both the Afghan Air Force and US forces are routinely targeting the loyalists of the terror group in this province.

The Afghan forces have stepped up operations to eliminate the loyalists of ISIS in Afghanistan amid concerns the terror is attempting to expand foothold in the country.

A front man for the US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan earlier said the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group has the potential to be an ’enormous’ threat in Afghanistan.

The US forces in Afghanistan have also increased Arclight airstrikes against the loyalists of the terror group with the chief of communications for the coalition, Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone,
...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ...
, earlier saying the United States has carried out 70 to 80 Arclight airstrikes against ISIS in Afghanistan.

Posted by:Fred

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