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2020-02-19 Afghanistan
Airstrikes, Special Forces raid kill 6 ISIS militants in East of Afghanistan
[KhaamaPress] A series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s and raid by Afghan Special Forces
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...
left six ISIS Khurasan Death Eaters dead in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
of Afghanistan.

The Ministry of Defense in a statement said an airstrike killed four ISIS Khurasan Death Eaters in Suki district of Kunar province.

The statement further added that the Afghan Special Forces killed an ISIS Khurasan holy warrior and destroyed a weapons cache during a raid in Tarang district of the Kunar.

Another airstrike in Tarang district killed an ISIS Khurasan holy warrior, the Ministry of Defense added in its statement.

The anti-government armed Death Eaters including ISIS loyalists have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-02-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
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