KABUL – *Daesh’s Chief in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed Orakzai, also known as SadArhabi, was killed in an airstrike on Saturday night, the NationalDirectorate of Security (NDS) confirmed Sunday*, TOLO News has reported.

According to officials, Orakzai was killed along with 10 other Daeshfighters in Nangarhar.

The airstrike was carried out against Jungle village in Khogyani districtduring an operation against two local Daesh strongholds.

Officials did not say whether the airstrike had been carried out by theAfghan Air Force or foreign forces.

However, the group’s weapons cache was also destroyed in the airstrike,officials said.

This was the third Daesh leader in Afghanistan to be killed in less thantwo years.

Orakzai succeed Abdul Hasib Logari in April last year, who had in turnsucceeded Hafiz Saeed Khan who died in a US drone strike in late 2016.

Daesh has over the past two years entrenched itself in Nangarhar despite aconcerted effort by both government and US Forces to eliminate the group inthe province.

The group has been increasingly active in the eastern province and is oftenbehind deadly attacks in the country – particularly in Jalalabad and Kabul.

Last week, the group claimed responsibility for the rocket attack againstthe Presidential Palace and also for the deadly suicide bombing against theMawoud Academy recently – killing more than 50 students, all under the ageof 20.