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Afghanistan
3 ISIS hideouts destroyed, 4 militants killed in airstrike in East of Afghanistan
2017-05-16
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three hideouts 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’s offshoot in Afghanistan, ISIS Khurasan, were destroyed 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 Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said at least four forces of Evil of the terror group were also killed in the Arclight airstrike.

According to MoD, the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Achin district of Nangarhar, one of the main strongholds of the terror group’s loyalists in Afghanistan.

No further details were given regarding the parties involved in the Arclight airstrike as both the Afghan Air Force and US forces based in Afghanistan are conducting regular Arclight airstrikes against the terror group in Afghanistan
Posted by:Fred

#1  2 empty holes and 1 rat's nest.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-05-16 16:18  

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