Afghan-Pakistan ISIL leader killed in US drone strike

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Afghan-Pakistan ISIL leader killed in US drone strike

 

 

ISIL’s leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a US drone strike.

 

The Pentagon says Hafiz Saeed Khan died on July 26 in Nangharhar province in Afghanistan in an air strike during joint operations by US and Afghan special forces.

 

His death strikes a blow to ISIL’s efforts to expand from its heartlands in Syria and Iraq into the region, where it has been challenging long-established fellow jihadist movements there, the Taliban and al Qaeda.

 

Khan’s death also marks the second US killing of a prominent militant in the region within months. In May, a US drone killed Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a strike in Pakistan.

 

Khan has been reported dead before. Last year, Afghan intelligence agents claimed he had been killed, but the report was never confirmed.

 

 

-- © Copyright Euronews 2016-08-13

 

[ChoakMyDee]

What a shame.

[AhFarangJa]

Well, it's a good start....

[Stargeezr]

The only way to get these groups like ISIL, Taliban and

BOKO, Al Queda and the others to quit their attacks

is to kill all of them like the rabid dogs they all are.

  I do have a way to weaken them, but it is barbaric

and I would not be considered civilized if I were to say

how on this forum. It does involve infecting some of them

and then releasing the infected into the midst of the rest of these

animals. Get them sick so they cannot fight, and have to spend time

in their hospitals, and camps while they get better. That would also make it easier

for the military to locate them and get rid of larger numbers of these

beasts with 2 legs walking.

Stargrazer