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| US drone strikes kill 16 ‘IS militants’ near Pak-Afghan border |
| 2015-10-24 |
| [Dawn] PESHAWAR: At least six 16 suspected 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, on the zero line bordering Khyber Agency ... the place to go if you've got an Indiana Jones hat and whip. Chock full of high adventure and treacherous Pathans. You should really train up to it, though... Security sources said the first drone targeted a hard boy compound in the Nazyan district of Nangarhar province, killing six suspected The sources added that all the six 'militants' belonged to the self-styled 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.... (IS) group in Afghanistan. Later in the day, a drone targeted a hideout in Bandar area of Nangarhar. Security sources said the drone fired two missiles, killing 10 suspected hard boys, all of whom they said belonged to the IS. Till 2014, Nazyan district had been serving as a safe haven for the Mullah Fazllullah led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP). According to security officials, ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. , which left over 140 children and teachers dead and scores injured. Pak security forces also carried out ground offensives in Khyber Agency, particularly the Tirah Valley of Bara which borders Nazyan. The forces cleared much of the Bara plain in Operation Khyber One launched in October 2014 while in a follow-on operation named Khyber-2 clearec the fierce Tirah terrain consisting of deep valleys and high mountains. |
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