KABUL- A Daesh commander, reportedly for the north of the country, namedQari Hikmatullah, was killed in an Afghan security forces airstrike inJawzjan province this week, security officials confirmed on Saturday.
Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, a spokesman for Shaheen 209 Military Corps in Balkhprovince, said Hikmatullah, along with his bodyguard, was killed in anAfghan air forces airstrike in Moghol village of Darzab district onThursday, TOLO News has reported.
Rezaee said Mawlavi Habibul Rahman has been appointed as his successor inthe north of the country.
Rezaee said that Daesh militants buried Hikmatullah’s body in Sardaravillage of Darzab district after the airstrike. He said they are howeverexpected to exhume the body and rebury it in Bibi Mariam village in thedistrict.