ISIL-KP terrorists attacked Taliban insurgents in northern Jawzjan province leading to heavy clashes that lasted into the following day resulting in ISIL-KP…

Cuándo

25 abr 2017 – 26 abr 2017

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Evento

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34.07° N, 70.63° E

Situado en: coordinates of the event it links, Mohmand Valley raid.

ISIL-KP terrorists attacked Taliban insurgents in northern Jawzjan province leading to heavy clashes that lasted into the following day resulting in ISIL-KP seizing two districts from the Taliban and killing 76 of their number, whilst ISIL-KP lost 15 killed. On the evening of April 26, 50 Rangers from 3rd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment joined 40 Afghan commandos to conduct a joint US-Afghan operation/raid that was targeting the headquarters of Abdul Hasib, the emir of ISIL-KP, in a village in Achin District, Nangarhar Province. The force was flown into Mohmand Valley and within minutes were engaged a heavy, close-quarter firefight, AC-130 gunships, Apache helicopters, F-16 fighters and drones were called into support the force firefight with ISIL-KP militants. The firefight lasted for three hours, resulting in two Rangers dying of their injuries (possibly caused by friendly fire) after being medevaced and a third was also wounded 18 to 35 (including Abdul Hasib and an unspecified number of ISIL-KP leaders) ISIL-KP militants were also killed.

2017 US/Afgan special operations raid targeting an ISIL-KP compound in Nangarhar Province

In the late hours of April 26, 2017, United States and Afghan special operations forces conducted an operation targeting an Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) compound in Achin District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.

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