Pentagon Says ISIS Afghanistan Leader Likely Killed, Marines Return to Helmand
US and Afghan troops likely killed the leader of ISIS’ Afghanistan affiliate in a raid in Nangarhar province this week, the Pentagon has said, as US Marines returned to Helmand, where American troops faced heated fighting until NATO’s combat mission ended in 2014.
The US raid, which occurred overnight Wednesday-Thursday, targeted Abdul Hasib, whom the Pentagon called the ISIS leader in Afghanistan.
“The thought is we got him, but we are not certain,” Pentagon spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said.
Davis said about 50 US special forces and 40 Afghan commandos had been chopered in to the Mohmand Valley late Wednesday near the compound used by Hasib.
His group is affiliated with ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and the US military calls it ISIS-Khorasan, or ISIS-K.
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