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Afghanistan
5 Pakistani militants killed in an airstrike in East of Afghanistan
2017-04-20
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five Pak gunnies affiliated with 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 offshoot, ISIS Khurasan, 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.

The provincial government media office in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out around 10:00 am local time in Nazian district.

The statement further added that the gunnies were targeted in the vicinity of Taktakani area of Nazian.

According to the provincial government, the gunnies killed in today’s Arclight airstrike belonged to Mawlavi Yahya group and are originally residents of Orakzai agency of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province in Pakistain.

Posted by:Fred

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