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Afghanistan
5 ISIS militants killed in Kunar and Nangarhar drone strikes
2018-03-26
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least five gunnies 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 a series of Arclight airstrikes conducted 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..
and Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
s.

The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the airstrikes were carried out by the US military using unmanned aerial vehicles.

The source further added that three gunnies were killed and one of them was injured in dronezap in Deh Bala district of Nangarhar.

According to Silab Corps, at least two ISIS gunnies were killed in a similar airstrike conducted in Chapa Dara district of Kunar.

Posted by:Fred

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