{"id":34892,"date":"2017-07-15T06:03:26","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=34892"},"modified":"2017-07-15T06:03:26","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:03:26","slug":"head-islamic-state-afghanistan-killed-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/head-islamic-state-afghanistan-killed-pentagon.html","title":{"rendered":"Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed: Pentagon<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group&#8217;s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement that other members of the Islamic State group were also killed in the strike on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters, &#8220;The significance is you kill a leader of one of these groups and it sets them back &#8230; it is obviously a victory on our side in terms of setting them back, it is the right direction.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Former leader Abdul Hasib was killed in a joint U.S. and Afghan operation on April 27 in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Hasib&#8217;s predecessor Hafiz Saeed Khan died in a U.S. drone strike in 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">Afghan troops, backed by U.S. warplanes and special forces, have been battling militants linked to Islamic State in eastern Afghanistan for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">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 U.S. forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 14pt\">General John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has vowed to defeat Islamic State there this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-afghanistan-islamic-state-idUSKBN19Z26G<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/head-islamic-state-afghanistan-killed-pentagon.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Islamic State in Afghanistan killed: Pentagon WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in a strike on the group&#8217;s headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday. 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