Head of ISIS in Afghanistan Killed in Kunar Airstrike

The head of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed, was killed in an attack on his headquarters in Kunar province earlier this week, the Pentagon said on Friday. “US forces killed Abu Sayed, the emir of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) – in a strike on the group’s headquarters in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, July 11,” Dana White, US assistant to the Secretary of Defence for public affairs, said in the statement. Sayed is the third Islamic State leader in Afghanistan to be killed since July 2016. Sayed had led the group since late April after the previous leader, Abdul Hasib, had been killed by US forces. Hasib’s predecessor Hafiz Sayed Khan was also killed by US forces.