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US Airstrike in Afghanistan kill Daesh head in Kunar

August 13, 2017

KABUL, Aug 13 (INP): NATO’s Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan confirmed in a statement on Sunday that a Daesh leader has been killed in an airstrike in Kunar. According to the statement, RS said the “death of Kunar provincial Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-Khorasan (ISIS-K) emir, Abdul Rahman,” has been confirmed. The statement said that Rahman was killed in an airstrike on August 10 with three additional senior Daesh members in Darah-e-Pech district of Kunar. “The death of Abdul Rahman deals yet another blow to the senior leadership of ISIS-K," said Gen. John Nicholson, Commander, US Forces-Afghanistan. “He found out just like those before him that there are no safe havens in Afghanistan. We will hunt them down until they are no longer a threat to the Afghan people and the region,” according to the statement. It said that Rahman, in addition to being a provincial emir, was a primary candidate to become the Daesh emir following the death of Abu Sayed in July. INP/AH/SB