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Afghanistan
ISIS and Taliban suffer casualties in Kunar airstrikes and operations
2017-07-14
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 turbans suffered heavy casualties during the Arclight airstrikes and ground operations in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
 of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army (ANA) forces in a statement said at least fifteen Taliban turbans were killed, two of them were maimed, and their heavy machine gun was destroyed during the operations of the ground forces in Asmar and Shigal districts on Tuesday.

The statement further added that in separate operations involving Arclight airstrikes, at least nine bandidos turbans affiliated with the Islamic State terror group were killed.

The Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Watapur district of Kunar, the Silab Corps added.

In the meantime, the provincial police chief Juma Gul Hemat said a total of eleven ISIS bandidos turbans were killed in the Arclight airstrikes.

According to Hemat, an Arab national and two Paks were among those killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
Posted by:Fred

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