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| Afghanistan |
| Afghan forces recapture site of village 'massacre' |
| 2017-08-16 |
| [Al Jazeera] Afghan forces have recaptured a remote village where fighters from 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group massacred dozens of civilians earlier this month, officials said. A front man for the Afghan army said on Tuesday that government troops retook Mirzawalang village in northern Sar-e Pul province after several days of intense festivities with Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighters. "Our forces are in full control of the village and are searching for Taliban mines and booby traps," Nasratullah Jamshidi told the AFP news agency. Dawlat Waziri, a front man for the Afghan defence ministry, said its forces had "pushed the Taliban out of the village" on Monday afternoon. Troops are due to start searching for mass graves following claims by families and local officials that about 50 villagers, including women and kiddies, were either shot or beheaded on August 5. ISIS on Tuesday grabbed credit for the killings, but officials said it was "a joint operation by ISIS and Taliban fighters". "They had recruited forces from other provinces of the country and attacked Mirzawalang village," Zabihullah Amani, front man for the provincial governor, said after the attack. |
| Posted by:Fred |