US drone strike has killed top ISIS leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan?

#ISIS #Pakistan #Afghanistan There are reports that the top Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan along with more than 30 other insurgents have been killed in a US drone strike in Nangarhar province of eastern Afghanistan.
This is as per information of the Afghan intelligence officials as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 July 2015.

It seems Hafiz Saeed Khan, a former Taliban leader who defected to ISIS, was killed in the drone attack – this has been revealed by a spokesman for Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security. The Afghan intelligence officials had made available the necessary information to the US forces who launched the strike accordingly.
The US side has confirmed that an airstrike was carried out in Nangarhar's Achin District and targeted 'individuals threatening the force' - but there is no confirmation about the death.
A second U.S. airstrike is reported to have killed Gull Zaman, believed to be the second-highest official in the local Islamic State affiliate, and Shahidullah Shahid, who is believed to be the group's chief spokesman in Afghanistan.
None of the deaths have been confirmed.
A number of drone strikes have been reported in Nangarhar over the past two weeks due to a joint US-Afghan military operation but the exact toll of casualties has not been disclosed.
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#ISIS #PakistanTaliban #AfghanistanTaliban It was a fight between two Islamist groups when extremists fighting for the Islamic State's fledgling outpost in Afghanistan brutally beheaded at least 10 Taliban members when they were fleeing a gun battle with government troops.
The attack happened in a remote area in the eastern province of Nangarhar and has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 8 June 2015.

The rival terror groups had declared war on one another in April after the Afghan Taliban branded the self-declared caliphate of ISIS illegitimate and refused to declare allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Since then, the rivalry between the two Islamic terror groups have intensified with the ISIS responding by launching recruitment drives deep into Taliban territory. Tis allowed them to expand rapidly – they have even replaced the Taliban as the dominant controlling force in one of the districts.
The influence of the ISIS is growing and Boko Haram in Nigeria and extremists in Libya have already entered the ISIS fold. As a result, other terror groups like the Al Shabaab in East Africa, Al Qaeda in the Middle East and the Taliban in central Asia are now faced with a dilemma ad have to take a decision on whether to join up with ISIS or risk becoming the group's enemies.
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