Alwaght- Officials claimed on Sunday head of ISIS's Afghanistan branch, Abu Saad Erhabi, was killed in a strike on the terrorist group's hideouts in Nangarhar province on Saturday night.
The National Directorate of Security in Kabul issued a statement, saying ten other members of the terrorist group were also killed in a joint ground and air operation by Afghan and foreign forces, Reuters reported.
A large amount of heavy and light weapons and ammunition were destroyed during raids on two ISIS hideouts.
The terrorist group’s Amaq’s news agency carried no comment on the issue.
The provincial governor of Nangarhar said Erhabi was the fourth ISIS leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2017.
ISIS has developed a stronghold in Nangarhar, on Afghanistan’s porous eastern border with Pakistan, and become one of the country’s most dangerous militant groups.
The local affiliate of ISIS, sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has been active since 2015.
Former ISIS-K leader Abu Sayed was killed in a strike in the eastern province of Nangarhar and Sayed’s predecessors were killed in joint NATO and Afghan operations.
