...Arabic for
students...
in northern Faryab province and a big shot 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) 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 have been killed in separate
s conducted by the coalition forces.Informed military sources said Friday that an ISIS-K commander, Khetab Emir, was killed in a coalition air strike January 10, 2019.
The sources further added that Khetab Emir was a known attack coordinator who supplied explosives and logistical support to enable high-profile attacks in civilian populated areas across the country.
His death protects Afghan citizens from future violence and degrades the ISIS-K presence in Nangarhar province, the sources added.
In the meantime, the military sources are saying that the intelligence chief of Taliban, Qari Sebghatullah, was killed in a precision air strike January 10, 2019.
According to the sources, Qari Sebghatullah planned and coordinated attacks on Afghan cops, government officials and civilians.
Another ISIS-K leader, the shadow governor of the group for Dara-ye Pech of Kunar was killed in another airstrike of the coalition forces on 10th of January, the sources said, adding that Abdul Karim was acting ISIS-K shadow governor for Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
At least 9 Talibs were killed in separate operations and airstrike of the Afghan and coalition forces in southern Uruzgan and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces, the sources said, emphasizing that "Afghans are ready for peace but the Afghan Security Forces will stay on the offensive and fight until the Taliban commits to a peaceful, Afghan-led solution."