KABUL- Afghan Special Security Forces and US Special Operators today heldjoint operations against the Daesh terrorists in the north of the country.
Forces disrupted Daesh capacity to use foreign fighters to terrorize theAfghan people in northern Afghanistan.
“These IS-K fighters are primarily Pakistani Pashtun,” said General JohnNicholson, commander, U.S. Forces-Afghanistan. “They have another segmentof Islamic Movement Uzbekistan. And then there’s probably ten per centthat’s from a variety of sources around the world.”
On Jan. 28. Afghan forces captured Khitab Aka, Daesh’s head facilitator offoreign fighters in Jawzjan. Less than two months later, on Mar. 16, a USairstrike killed Aka’s replacements, Daesh commanders Omair and Abu Samaya,as the duo met in Sar-e Pul province, US Forces-Afghanistan Headquarterssaid in a statement on Thursday.
The statement said the Afghan and US forces delivered another blow to Daeshduring a partnered nighttime raid in the isolated village of Mughul, Darzabdistrict, Jawzjan province, Mar. 22. This tactical defeat of Daesh fightersin Jawzjan is the most recent in a series of Afghan and US SOFcounterterrorism successes targeting Daesh in northern Afghanistan thisyear.
“Every day, we’re going against IS-K (Daesh),” said Nicholson. “They werein southern Nangarhar. If you were to go there today, you would see some ofthe valleys that have been liberated from IS-K: the populations returning,the kids going back into school.”