30 August 2017

News Story: 14 IS militants killed in Afghan province

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- Fourteen militants of Islamic State (IS), including a woman fighter, were killed during airstrikes in Nangarhar, eastern Afghanistan, a local police said Tuesday.

The strikes were launched in Muhmand Murghai and Sat Khan localities of Achin district, Nangarhar province late on Monday, provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal told Xinhua.

No civilians or security force members were hurt following the the strikes which were conducted by the NATO-led coalition forces. The initial information confirmed that the dead included an IS militants' affiliated woman fighter, the source said.

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