Eighteen ISIS members accompanied by 24 women and 31 children surrendered to Afghan forces on Friday in Achin district, 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 Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday.
The total number of ISIS bully boyz and family members who have surrendered to Afghan forces in the past two weeks is "over 615," according to the Defense Ministry, which attributes the recent mass surrenders to increased operations against "terrorists" by security forces.
On Thursday, 82 ISIS fighters
handed over their weapons and surrendered to Afghan cops in Achin district of Nangarhar, and were accompanied by 51 women and 96 children. On Wednesday, ’at least 300’ ISIS members, including women and kiddies, surrendered to Afghan Special Forces
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...in Nangarhar, according to Commander Waliullah, the Army Special Forces commander in Achin district.
According to Abdulhaq Omeri, a TOLOnews news hound, a number of those 300 ISIS members are Pak citizens. But interviews with ISIS members indicate that fighters come from a variety of countries.
"There were ISIS members from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Iran, Kurdistan and Iranian Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, and they were staying in our guest house, but not for a long time. After having a meal or resting for a night they would move on to other areas," said Abdul Wahid, 35, a former ISIS member from Afghanistan’s Farah Province, who surrendered among the 300 on Wednesday.