[DAWN] A US drone on Thursday targeted hideouts of self-styled myrmidon organization -- 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....
-- in Nazyan area 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 of Afghanistan, which is adjacent to Pakistain's Khyber Agency.
Security sources say the US drone fired two missiles, killing four gunnies and injuring several in the attack.
A myrmidon hideout was also destroyed, they said, adding that all those killed belonged to the Islamic State group.
The details could not be independently verified. Tracking of drone strikes in Afghanistan is difficult since many of them take place in remote regions and are not reported.