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| US Strikes Kill 5 Taliban Militants in Afghanistan |
| 2015-08-13 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] At least five suspected Taliban members have been killed and two others have been injured in two US drone strikes in eastern Afghanistan over the course of two days, Afghan security officials said on Tuesday. The World Bulletin news website cited provincial police chief, General Abdul Habib Saeedkhil, a US drone opened fired at a suspected Taliban hideout in Shigal district's Shonkorok Valley on Monday that left at least three bully boyz dead. Another drone attack in Nazian district of 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 killed two bully boyz and maimed two others on Sunday, Hazrat Hussain Mashriqiwal of the provincial police office, said. Mashriqiwal added that Afghan cops were also engaging with bully boyz in an operation in the same district. According to local officials, US-led international forces have carried out 17 drone strikes in the past one month in eastern Nangarhar province. "At least 245 Death Eaters, including Taliban and ISIL [acronym of the so-called '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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant'] fighters have been killed in the past one month by drone strikes," front man for provincial governor, Ahmad Zia Alizai, said. "150 of those killed were ISIL affiliated fighters," Alizai added. A suspected ISIL leader Hafiz Saeed was killed along with 30 of his fighters in a US drone strike in Nangarhar on July 10. |
| Posted by:Fred |