Air strike kills ISIS leader in Afghanistan
A senior Islamic State commander has been killed by an air strike in eastern Afghanistan, intelligence officials said yesterday, the fourth high-ranking member of the militant group to be killed in the area in the past week.
Hafez Saeed was the leader of Islamic State in the "so-called Khorasan state", according to Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security (NDS), referring to an old term to describe Afghanistan and Pakistan.
He was killed along with 30 other militants as they gathered in Achin district of Nangarhar province late on Friday, the intelligence agency said. It did not give any further details about the air strike.
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