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Afghanistan
Drone strikes target ISIS Khurasan hideouts in Nangarhar province
2018-08-30
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The U.S. forces based in Afghanistan carried out a series of Arclight airstrikes on the hideouts of 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 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 of Afghanistan.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the latest airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Khogyani district.

According to a statement released by 201st Silab Corps, the U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles targeted some hideouts of the terror group in Wazir Tangi area of the district.

The statement further added that the airstrikes left at least seven holy warriors of the terror group dead.

The anti-government armed bully boy and terrorist groups including ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.

Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces since the fall of the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
regime in 2001 but the anti-government armed holy warriors have been attempting to expand their foothold in this province during the recent years.

However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
the Afghan armed forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations to suppress the bully boy groups.

Posted by:Fred

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