A former Taliban leader now thought to be ISIS' leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said Saturday.
In
a statement, the National Directorate of Security reported that Hafiz
Saeed was killed along with 30 other insurgents in a strike on their
compound in the Achin region of Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar
Province.
"As a result of efforts made
by the NDS, the location of ISIS fighters' gathering was found and the
information was shared with the coalition forces who then carried out an
airstrike on them," the Afghan agency said.
The
strike represents a seemingly big victory in Afghanistan's fight
against ISIS, a terrorist group that has been blamed for numerous
atrocities and conquered vast swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria
while also branching out with affiliates elsewhere.
