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Afghanistan
US drone strike kills 4 IS militants
2017-07-05
[DAWN] A US dronezap killed four fighters of the bad boy 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....
(IS) group, including a senior commander, an Afghan official said.

Waheedullah Kalimzai, the governor of the eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, said the strike on Monday killed Hazrat Gul and three other fighters in a mountainous area controlled by the bad boys.

He said authorities learned of the deaths from intelligence reports.

An IS affiliate drawn largely from disgruntled former Taliban
...Arabic for students...
fighters operates in eastern Afghanistan, where it has clashed with Afghan forces as well as the more established Taliban.

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a senior police official was killed by a bomb planted in his car in Kabul, according to Basir Mujahid, a police front man.
Posted by:Fred

#2  They make good fertilizer.
Posted by: gorb   2017-07-05 13:59  

#1  And people say there are no good IS militants.
Posted by: Glenmore   2017-07-05 11:35  

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