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Afghanistan
ISIS affiliates kill tribal elders in Nangarhar province
2015-07-11
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The affiliates of 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 (ISIS) terrorist group have assassinated a number of tribal elders 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.

Malik Amin a local resident and tribal elder in Mamand area of Achin district said three tribal elders were rubbed out by the ISIS affiliates.

He said the tribal elders who were rubbed out by the ISIS affiliates have been identified as Rozha Gul, Shamal Khan and Mazar Haji.

In the meantime, another official said at least five tribal elders were executed by the ISIS affiliates and a number of civilians were maimed.

The provincial governor front man Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal confirmed that sporadic festivities takes place between the Talibs and ISIS affiliates in remote areas of Achin district. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
he said the exact number of casualties is not clear so far.

Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed Death Eaters are actively operating in a number of its districts and frequently carry out insurgency activities.

Posted by:Fred

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