ISIS leader confirmed killed in Afghanistan
US and Afghan military officials confirmed on Sunday reports that the leader of the ISIS group in Afghanistan was killed during a joint operation in Nangarhar province.
"Sheikh Abdul-Haseeb, the emir of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and the Khorasan Province in Afghanistan, was killed in a joint US-Afghan operation," the US military said in a statement.
The statement added that dozens of Afghan and American special forces participated in a joint attack on ISIS caves and tunnel network in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, which resulted in the killing of Abdul Hasib and 35 of his companions.
Abdul-Haseeb was the one who ordered the attack on the Sardar Mohammad Dawood military hospital in March, which killed 51 people. At the time, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack.
Source: Voice of America
