ISIS head in Afghanistan killed
US forces and Afghan commando patrol Pandola village near the site of a US bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 14, 2017.
:: ISIS’s head in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in an operation led by Afghan special forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, President Ashraf Ghani announced on Sunday.
Hasib, appointed last year after his predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a US drone strike, is believed to have ordered a series of high profile attacks including one in March on the main military hospital in Kabul by a group of militants disguised as doctors, a statement said.
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