Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the Islamic State group were also killed in the strike on Tuesday. Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016. Afghan troops, backed by US warplanes and special forces, have been battling militants linked to Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan for years. The local affiliate of Islamic State, sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has been active since 2015, fighting the Taliban and Afghan and US forces. General John Nicholson, the top US commander in Afghanistan, has vowed to defeat Islamic State there this year.

Source: bd News24 July 15, 2017 04:30 UTC