US and NATO forces confirmed that Jawad Khan, a senior media wing member of Daesh, was killed in a US airstrike in eastern Afghanistan. Khan was killed in Achin, Nangarhar province, on June 3, as part of ongoing efforts to defeat ISIS-K in Afghanistan this year. “His death will disrupt the ISIS-K network, degrade their recruitment process and hinder their attempts to conduct international operations,” said Gen. John Nicholson, commander of US forces in Afghanistan. “There is no safe haven for ISIS-K in Afghanistan. With our Afghan partners we will continue to aggressively target ISIS-K and defeat them,” he added. In the past 10 months, Afghan and US counter-terrorism forces have eliminated several key ISIS-K leaders including the ISIS-K so-called emir, Hafiz Sayed Khan, and his successor Abdul Hasib.
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