targeting a group of ISIS IED planters, leaving at least three of them dead.The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said a group of three ISIS gunnies were busy planting an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Payin area of Deh Bala district when they came under an airstrike of the coalition forces drone aircraft.
The statement further added that the airstrike left at least three ISIS gunnies dead.
The Talibs and other gunnies including ISIS often use improvised bomb as the weapon of their choice to target the security forces and government officials.
However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
in majority of such attacks the ordinary civilians are killed while in some cases the Talibs are themselves blown up in premature kabooms.
Anti-government elements must immediately end the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of all improvised bombs (IEDs) in areas frequented by civilians, said UNAMA in a special human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
report released few days earlier.
The special report ‐ titled "Increasing Harm to Afghan Civilians form the Deliberate and Indiscriminate Use of Improvised Explosive Devices" ‐ documents a sharp increase from 1 January ‐ 30 September 2018 in the killing and maiming of Afghan civilians by IEDs, which have caused almost half of the civilian casualties from conflict-related violence.