...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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) were killed in an
in eastern NangarharThe 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 the airstrike was carried out in the vicinity of Achin district.
The source further added that a weapons and munitions depot of the terror group was targeted in the airstrike and as a result at least three turbans were killed.
According to the Ministry of Defense, several weapons, munitions, and explosives were also destroyed during the airstrike.
Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but the anti-government armed turbans have been attempting to expand their insurgency in this province during the recent years.
Militants belonging to the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
group as well as the ISIS Khurasan are active in some remote districts and parts of the province.
In the meantime, counter-terrorism involving airstrikes, both from the Afghan and US forces are underway to suppress the activities of the anti-government armed turbans in this province.