[AlAhram] A senior commander of 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....
holy warrior group was killed in Afghanistan in a raid, U.S. Forces Afghanistan said on Saturday.
Khetab Emir was killed in the raid on Jan 10 in the eastern area of 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, said Lt. Ubon Mendie, a front man for the U.S. forces based in Afghanistan.
Emir, who was known by multiple names, facilitated high-profile attacks and supplied Islamic State fighters with weapons and materials to make explosives, Mendie said in a statement.
"His removal helps protect innocent Afghans from future Islamic State violence and weakens their presence in Nangarhar," Mendie said.
Islamic State fighters have developed a stronghold in the province on Afghanistan's eastern border with Pakistain and have become one of the country's most dangerous holy warrior groups.
The hardline holy warrior group's local affiliate, known as Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has been active since 2015, fighting the Taliban
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students...
as well as Afghan and foreign forces.
The fight against Islamic State and other holy warrior groups including Al Qaeda and the Taliban is at the heart of the U.S. led counterterrorism mission being conducted alongside the NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis....
-led Resolute Support operation aimed at training and advising Afghan cops.