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Afghanistan
Drone strike kill 4 militants fighting for ISIS group in Afghanistan
2016-06-24
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A drone strike killed at least four holy warriors fighting for 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan.

According to the local officials 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, the holy warriors were targeted in Kot district.

Provincial governor’s front man Ataullah Khogyani said the Arclight airstrike was carried out in Pir Shah Khel area late on Wednesday afternoon.

He said some weapons and ammunition belonging to the loyalists of the terror group were also destroyed in the raid.

This comes as at least 23 loyalists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in an Arclight airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan last week.

The Afghan forces as well as the US forces are regularly targeting the loyalists of the terror group in this province in a bid to curb their activities.

The Afghan government earlier a strategy to fight the loyalists of the terror group in Afghanistan.

In the meantime, the US forces stepped up Arclight airstrikes against the ISIS loyalists earlier this year after they were granted more authorities by President Barack Obama
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