[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 300 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group have been since a major operation was launched against the supporters of the terror group in East of Afghanistan.
All of them are key commanders, too.
Officials in the Ministry of Defense (MoD) have said the holy warriors were killed during the operations, Shaheen 18, in 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.
Deputy MoD front man Mohammad Radmanish confirmed around 300 ISIS loyalists were killed and around 100 others were maimed during the raids.
He said the operations will continue until all areas along the Durand Line in eastern parts of country have been cleared from the presence of the terror group.
This comes as the Afghan commando forces launched a major operation in Nangarhar province on Friday a day after the Minister of Defense Abdullah Habibi visited the province to kick off the operations.
The Afghan commandos shared numerous pictures as they continued clearance operations in Kot district, including photographs which purportedly showed the compounds of the terror group in the province.
A compound used as a court by the loyalists of the terror group was among the compounds cleared by the Afghan commandos during the operations.
ISIS loyalists were using the compound to try those convicted of working for the government and were brutally executing them afterwards.