ISIS LEADER KILLED BY THE US airstrike drone|GUGUONPOINT
ISIS-K`S (EMIR) Was killed " in a strike on the group`s headquarters in Kunar province, July 11" The Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said Friday that US forces have finally killed Abu Sayed, the leader of Isis Khorasan, The Terror group`s Afghanistan affiliate.
US navy captain Bill Salvin, spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, detailed how Abu Sayed was murdered. Salvin said he was killed in an airstrike by a US drone.
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Secretary of defense James Mattes told reporters that the death of a leader like Sayed sets them back, its about who it is and what kind of people are below them.
General. john Nicholson, commander, US forces in Afghanistan said in a statement, " This operation is another success in our campaign to defeat Isis-K in 2017.
Abu sayed is the third Isis-k emir we have killed in the last year and we will continue until they are all annihilated, there is no safe haven for Isis-k in Afghanistan."
Hafiz Sayed Khan was killed in July 2016 and another emir Adul Hasib was killed during a joint US-Afghan raid commando raid in April.
It is reported that the April`s raid also resulted in the deaths of Isis-k`s several other ranking leaders. Two American soldiers in the attack.maybe from friendly fire, military officials said at the time.
Afghan and US launched a counter Isis-k offensive in early march 2017 and General John the commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan. has pledged to drive the terror group out of Afghanistan by the end of 2017.
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