(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) KABUL: Foreign forces in Afghanistan killed an Islamic State
commander in an air strike in eastern Nangarhar province, security officials
said.
'The notorious Daesh commander Khateb Ameer has been killed
in an air strike which foreign forces launched in Nangarhar,' a spokesman for
the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
Javid Ahmad Ghafoor said Khateb coordinated and facilitated
attacks in urban areas and provided explosive materials and logistic support to
the Daesh extremists. Khateb's killing would help improve security situation in
Nangarhar and its urban areas, he said.
In another string of air strikes in the Islamic State hotbed
Nangarhar, Afghan and coalition killed 7 terrorists and arrested as many others.
A spokesman for the 201st Selab Military Corps Mohammad Haroon Yusufzai said
the drone strikes killed seven ISIS extremists and wounded one in Nari Awbu
village of Haska Meena district on Thursday night.
He said five Taliban and two Islamic State militants were
arrested after Afghan forces launched operations in Khogiani, Shinwari and
Durbaba districts of Nangarhar.
Governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogiani said the detained
insurgents were carrying out terrorist activities in the Shinwari, Khogiani and
Batikot district of the province.
'They have acknowledged their involvement in subversive
activities and are under investigation of the National Directorate of Security,'
he added.
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