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| ISIS media official killed in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan: Gen. Nicholson |
| 2017-06-18 |
| [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The media official of the ISIS Khurasan, the offshoot of the ISIS in Afghanistan, was killed in an 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 earlier this month, the commander of the US forces and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led Resolute Support Mission, General John Nicholson has said. According to a statement by U.S. Forces-Afghanistan "U.S. Forces-Afghanistan has confirmed the death of the ISIS-K senior director of media production, Jawad Khan. Khan was killed in an "His death will disrupt the ISIS-K network, degrade their recruitment process and hinder their attempts to conduct International operations," said Gen. John Nicholson, commander, US Forces-Afghanistan. "There is no safe haven for ISIS-K in Afghanistan. With our Afghan partners we will continue to aggressively target ISIS-K and defeat them." The statement further added that Khan served as the senior ISIS commander in the Khorasan branch of the group. The removal of Khan will deprive the group of an experienced media production director and skilled propagandist. This strike also destroyed a major ISIS-K media production hub and disrupts their connections to ISIS main in Syria. In the past 10 months, Afghan and U.S. counter-terrorism forces have eliminated several key ISIS-leaders including the ISIS-K Emir, Hafiz Sayed and his successor, Abdul Hasib, the statement said, adding that "There were no civilian casualties associated with this strike. U.S. and Afghan forces take every precaution to avoid civilian casualties with every operation, and will not relent in the pursuit of Lions of Islam who seek to harm the innocent citizens of Afghanistan." |
| Posted by:Fred |