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Top ISIL leader killed in Helmand
Press TV: Afghan officials say a senior commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group has been killed along with four of his comrades during a cleanup operation in Afghanistan’s troubled south.
Shah Mahmood Ashna, a spokesman for the provincial police headquarters said on Friday that the militant commander, identified as Sulaiman, was killed along with four others when Afghan security forces launched a surprise attack on their hideout in the Kajaki district of the southern Helmand Province.
Ashna also noted that Afghan forces suffered no casualties during the encounter.
Afghan security sources say the death of notorious ISIL militants and commanders would be a major setback for the terrorist group operating inside Helmand and adjacent provinces.
Senior Afghan officials have warned that the violent Takfiri group, which controls swathes of land in Iraq and Syria, is actively recruiting militants in the war-torn country.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has recently said that ISIL is worse than al-Qaeda for Afghanistan.