At least two commanders of the ISIL militant group have been killed and six others arrested in mop-up operations by Afghan security forces carried out against the Takfiri terrorists in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar.
Brigadier General Fazl Ahmad Sherzad, the provincial police chief, told reporters on Tuesday that the ISIL extremists were killed and arrested in Chaparhar district, located 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of the provincial capital city of Jalalabad, without specifying when exactly the operations took place.
He identified the slain ISIL commanders as Ghulam Farooq and Mir Wais.
The Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) announced on July 11 that the leader of the ISIL terrorist group in Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, identified as 65-year-old Hafiz Saeed Khan, had been killed along with 30 other ISIL militants during a US assassination drone strike in the Achin district of Nangarhar Province.
Saeed Khan, a formal Taliban strongman and one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, had pledged allegiance to ISIL in January.
The development came only four days after Gul Zaman, the second-in-command of the ISIL Takfiris in Afghanistan, was also killed along with his deputy Jahanyar and five others in a drone strike in the same Afghan region.
On June 16, the Taliban warned ISIL ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi against “waging a parallel insurgency in Afghanistan.”
The militant group asked the ISIL leader to keep his men out of Afghanistan by withdrawing his support for those elements that are recruiting young militants in the so-called Taliban strongholds.
Afghanistan is gripped by insecurity years after soldiers from the United States and its allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror.
source : abna
