[GEO.TV] At least six bully boyz including commanders were killed and 15 others maimed Thursday in an improvised bomb (IED) attack targetting the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain (TTP) in Afghanistan’s Khost province
... across the border from Miranshah, within commuting distance of Haqqani hangouts such as Datta Khel and probably within sight of Mordor. Khost is populated by six different tribes of Pashtuns, the largest probably being the Khostwal, from which it takes its name...
Betcha they were key commanders too!
According to sources, the killed forces of Evil were identified as Abdul Manan, Alam Khan Mudakhel, Kajeer while three dead forces of Evil remain unnamed.
Among the injured bully boyz are commander Fazl Amin, commander Muhammad alias Toofan, commander Noor Payo Khan, Faqirullah, Tarozai, Sat Kai, Ali Sur Khan, Zubair, Hijratullah, Kamal, Sher Afzal, Bakhtullah, Zubihullah, and two others.
No group or country has grabbed credit for the attack.
It must be noted that the TTP pledges allegiance to the Afghan Taliban but is not directly a part of the group that rules in Kabul.
On Monday, Taliban forces killed a top ISIS commander who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said.
The Afghan affiliate of ISIS, known as ISIS Khorasan, after an old name of the region, are enemies of the Taliban. Fighters loyal to ISIS first appeared in eastern Afghanistan in 2014, and later made inroads in other areas.
Violence in Afghanistan dramatically dipped after the Taliban seized power in August 2021.
But in the past year, security has worsened, with a spate of mass casualty attacks claimed by ISIS’s regional chapter.
Taliban forces killed Qari Fateh, the regional ISIS "intelligence and operations chief," during an operation on Sunday night, the Taliban government front man Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement.
Fateh "directly criminal masterminded recent operations in Kabul, including against diplomatic missions, mosques, and other targets," Mujahid said.
One other ISIS member was killed in the operation against the cell, which was based in Kabul’s Khair Khana area, according to the statement.
After Western forces left Afghanistan in August 2021, Pakistain sought a truce with the TTP, resulting in a months-long ceasefire and negotiations brokered by the Afghan Taliban. As part of the effort, many forces of Evil from Afghanistan were resettled in Pakistain.
The TTP ended the ceasefire in November 2022, and regrouped forces of Evil restarted attacks in Pakistain soon after.
Pakistain’s military effectively dismantled the TTP and killed most of its top leadership in a string of operations from 2014 onwards, driving most of the fighters into Afghanistan, where they regrouped.
On January 31, a jacket wallah went kaboom! inside a crowded mosque in a highly fortified security compound in the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
 ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
Police Lines area, killing over 80 people, in the latest in a string of attacks targeting police. The responsibility was taken by outlawed TTP.
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