Hasib's regiment is also known as the Islamic State in the Khorasan (ISIS-K), which is a name for both Afghanistan and Pakistan that dates back to ancient times. The U.S. government would request North Atlantic Treaty Organisation nations to send thousands of troops.
The head of Islamic State in Afghanistan - believed to be the mastermind behind several high-profile attacks, including an assault on a military hospital that claimed at least 50 lives - has been killed, according to USA and Afghan officials. On April 13, it dropped the non-nuclear "mother of all bombs" in Nangarhar, saying it was targeting a system to tunnels used by Islamic State fighters.
"Within a few minutes of landing, our combined force came under intense fire from multiple directions and well-prepared fighting positions", said a joint US-Afghan army statement. More than 100 Afghan civilians were killed. The role of USA -led coalition forces in the Nangahar offensive was not immediately clear.
The head of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, has been killed in a military raid, USA and Afghan officials have said. They assaulted a cluster of village buildings where Hasib and other Islamic State militants were staying, killing all of them and 35 guards.
US officials have said Hasib was the target of the April 26 operation.
The raid was the most recent attack against ISIS-K, which is responsible for numerous acts of terror throughout the region. USA officials say they may have been killed as the result of friendly fire in the opening minutes of the three-hour battle. They have been identified as Sgt. Joshua P. Rodgers, 22, of Bloomington, Illinois, and Sgt. Cameron H. Thomas, 23, of Kettering, Ohio.
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Fox News noted that Hasib is suspected of organizing an attack on an Afghanistan hospital on March 8. Hasib switched his allegiance to the Islamic State in Afghanistan, taking over from his predecessor, Hafiz Saeed Khan, who was killed nine months ago in a USA airstrike.
"This is the second ISIS-K emir [leader] we have killed in nine months, along with dozens of their leaders and hundreds of their fighters, Nicholson noted".
The militant leader, Abdul Hasib, had overseen a number of bloody attacks that directly challenged the authority of President Ashraf Ghani, including a massacre at the main Afghan army hospital in Kabul that killed at least 50 people. The role of US -led coalition forces in the latest phase of the offensive was not immediately clear.
A USA military spokesman in Kabul, Navy Capt. William Salvin, estimated that the ISIS-K force has now been reduced from more than 2,500 fighters at its peak in 2015 to less than 600, mostly confined to several adjacent districts in Nangahar.
The ministry said the air strikes targeted IS hideouts in the Nazyan and Achin districts. Defeating the Islamic State in the country has been one of the main reasons the U.S. says its troops are still stationed there. It has lured some Taliban members and created rivalries with others. The blast killed at least 95 jihadists, according to the Afghan defense ministry, but North Atlantic Treaty Organisation officials have said they are still assessing the damage.
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