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Afghanistan
12 militants killed, 7 hideouts destroyed in Nangarhar airstrike
2017-06-28
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least twelve faceless myrmidons were killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted in the 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 of Achin district.

A statement by MoD said at least twelve faceless myrmidons were killed and seven of their hideouts were destroyed in the raid.

No further details were given regarding the Arclight airstrike and it is yet not clear if the Lions of Islam belonged to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
faceless myrmidons or ISIS terrorist group.

Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but certain remote districts of it have witnessed growing insurgency mainly led by Taliban and ISIS during the recent years.

A major plan 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 the Levant (ISIS) to establish the Khurasan province in Afghanistan has been foiled by the Afghan cops, the acting Minister of Defense Tariq Shah Bahrami said earlier.

Bahrami further added that the Afghan cops have launched 12 large operations so far and dozens of medium and large operations while hundreds of Arclight airstrikes have been conducted on the hideouts of the terror group.

According to the acting minister of defense, at least 2,500 Lions of Islam of the terrorist group have been killed during the operations until now and around 800 others have sustained injuries.

Posted by:Fred