28 Mar 2024
Monday 8 May 2017 - 14:17
Story Code : 260060

Head of Daesh in Afghanistan killed in joint strike with US: Ghani



Press TV - Afghanistans President Ashraf Ghani has announced the death of the Daesh terrorist groups leader in the country during a joint raid with the US.

On Sunday, Ghani said that Abdul Hasibwas killed during a joint operation by 40 Afghan commandos and 50 US special forces last Thursday in the countrys eastern province ofNangarhar.



The compound where Hasib was holed up is close to the location where US dropped the Mother of All Bombs on a Daesh tunnel system on April 13.

The operations came one week after a failed attempt to kill the Daesh commander in which two US army rangers were killed.

Hasib took control of the Daesh Afghan affiliate ISIL-Khorasan about one year ago, when his predecessorHafiz Saeed Khan was slain by a US drone attack.



[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] The photo shows Afghan security forces during an operation against Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Kot district of Nangarhar province, February 16, 2017.[/caption]

Earlier in the week, former Afghan president Hamid Karzai claimed that the US is responsible for the rise of Daesh in his homeland, saying Washington is in cahoots with the notorious terrorist group it has created.

Daesh is suspected of carrying out several attacks against Shias inAfghanistan. According to the US intelligence, the Takfiri terrorist group is mostly active in Nangarhar and its neighboring Kunar province. There are thought to be between 700 to 1,500 Daesh members operating in the country.

Afghanistanis still suffering from insecurity and violence years after the United States and its allies invaded the country as part of Washingtons so-called war on terror. The military invasion removed the Taliban from power, but their militancy continues to this day.

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