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Afghanistan
4 ISIS militants killed in Nangarhar airstrike
2017-05-18
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least four hard boyz 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 killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted 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) said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in the vicinity Bati Kot district.

MoD further added that a vehicle used by ISIS loyalists was also destroyed in the Arclight airstrike.

The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including the ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.

Posted by:Fred

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