Drone Strike Leaves 17 ISIS Loyalists Dead in Afghanistan

1/17/2016 5:27:05 AM

(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) Kabul January 17 (QNA) - At least 17 loyalists of the (ISIS) group were killed in airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the airstrikes were carried out in Deh Bala district on Saturday afternoon.
The MoD said that the airstrikes were carried out by the coalition forces involving at least eight raids targeting the loyalists of the group according to the Afghan (Khaama Press).
Airstrikes carried out by coalition forces and Afghan Air Forces targeting the loyalists of the group in Nangarhar province have been rampant during the recent days.
A key commander was killed along with ten others in a similar raid in Achin district earlier on Friday.
Nangarhar is among the relatively volatile provinces in eastern Afghanistan where anti-government armed militant groups including the fanatics loyal to the ISIS group are actively operating in a number of its remote districts.
The loyalists of the group have recently increased their insurgency activities in Afghanistan and targeted the Pakistani consulate in their latest wave of insurgency activities. (QNA)

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