Several senior Islamic State group members in Afghanistan — including a provincial leader — have been killed in a United States airstrike.
General John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan, says Thursday’s strike killed Abdul Rahman, who he claimed was a provincial leader in IS’s Afghanistan branch, known as IS-Khorasan Province (IS-K).
Rahman’s death comes a month after US forces killed Abu Sayed, the head of IS-K. That marked the third time in a year that the affiliate had lost its leader.
US forces and Afghan security police are seen in Asad Khil near the site of a US bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
“The death of Abdul Rahman deals yet another blow to the senior leadership of ISIS-K,” Nicholson says in a statement. “He found out just like those before him that there are no safe havens in Afghanistan. We will hunt them down until they are no longer a threat to the Afghan people and the region.”
Nicholson says that three other senior IS-K members had been killed in the strike in Darah-Ye Pech district in the northeastern province of Kunar.
— AFP
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