The second leader of the jihadist group to be killed by US and Afghan forces in less than nine months, his death came days after Washington dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on IS hideouts in the same area. NATO commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson confirmed the killing of Hasib and warned that "any ISIS member that comes to Afghanistan will meet the same fate". The first, Hafiz Saeed, was killed in a US airstrike also in Nangarhar province in July last year. "Dozens of Daesh fighters have been killed in eastern Afghanistan, but it did not bring positive change." First emerging in Afghanistan in 2015, the jihadist group overran large parts of Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, near the Pakistan border.

Source: Daily Nation May 08, 2017 09:54 UTC