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Afghanistan
Top IS-Khorasan Commander Killed in Southern Afghanistan
2023-02-25
[KhaamaPress] A Top Kashmiri commander of the Khorasan Brach of ISIS has been killed in southern Afghanistan, a report said on Tuesday.

The senior commander Ejaz Amin Ahangar, known as Abu Osman al-Kashmiri, is a senior member of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Khorasan in the southern province of Afghanistan.

According to intelligence authorities and members of his family, Abu Osman is thought to have been slain in southern Afghanistan. He is accused of being the leader of an Islamic State cell responsible for a string of suicide kabooms by Indian nationals in Kabul and Jalalabad.

Abu Osman was previously a part of the "Mujahideen Movement" in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Pakistain. In 2015, he eventually joined ISIS after initially joining al-Qaeda.

Abu Osman has reportedly been slain by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
and was discovered dead in Afghanistan’s Kunar Province
...one of the four N2KL provinces (Nangarhar, Nuristan, Kunar and Laghman). N2KL is the designation used by US and Coalition Forces for the rugged and very violent region opposite Pakistain's Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Northwest Frontier Province. Kunar is the center of the N2KL region. Its population is 95% Pashtun. It is adjacent to Bajaur Agency..
Recently, the group has increased their attacks in different parts of Afghanistan, particularly Kabul city, targeting Taliban officials and foreign nationals and people.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the pastor had finally been wrestled from the pulpit.
Y'got the wrong guy! he yelled just before Sergeant Malone's billy club landed...

the interim government in Afghanistan have launched numerous operations to kill the group members in the country
Posted by:trailing wife

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