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Afghanistan
ISIL leader in Afghanistan killed in air raids
2018-08-27
[Al Jazeera] The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan was killed in air strikes in eastern 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, the fourth head of the gang to die since it emerged in the country in recent years.

Abu Saad Erhabi and 10 other 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 the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) members died in a joint operation with coalition forces on Saturday night, the National Directorate of Security
...the Afghan national intel agency...
said in a statement on Sunday.

"The emir of ISIS in Afghanistan - along with 10 others - was killed," it said, using the gang's Arabic acronym.

The air attacks on a village in Khugyani district, near the border with Pakistain, also destroyed a large number of weapons, explosives, and ammunition, the agency said.

The provincial governor's front man Attaullah Khogyani confirmed Erhabi's death.

US forces in Afghanistan said they conducted an air raid in the location described by Afghan officials, which "targeted a big shot of a designated terrorist organization".

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