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Afghanistan
3 foreign ISIS militants killed in US drone strike in East of Afghanistan
2017-03-12
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least three snuffies affiliated with 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 were killed in an Arclight airstrike conducted by the US forces 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.

The provincial police commandment in a statement said the Arclight airstrike was carried out late on Friday in Momand Dara area of Achin district.

The statement further added that the snuffies were targeted by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, leaving three of them dead and at least three others maimed.

According to the police commandment, the local residents and security forces did not suffer any casualties in the Arclight airstrike.

Posted by:Fred

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