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Afghanistan
Taliban, ISIS militants suffer casualties in Afghan, U.S. forces operations
2018-10-05
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Militants affiliated with the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
group and 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 Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) have suffered casualties during the operations of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and the U.S. Forces based in Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the Special Forces of the 02 Unit in 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..
Airbase conducted an operation in Kodi Khel district of Shirzad district, leaving at least six Talibs dead.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted with the support of Air Forces.

The U.S. forces based in Afghanistan also conducted Arclight airstrikes on factories producing drugs, the 201st Silab Corps said, adding that the airstrikes were carried out in the same district and as a result two factories were destroyed.

In the meantime, the U.S. forces carried out airstrikes against ISIS-K turbans in Pacher Agam district of Nangarhar province, leaving at least six ISIS turbans dead, the 201st Silab Corps said.

According to the statement released by 201st Silab Corps, the security forces and local residents have not suffered casualties during the operations and airstrikes.

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