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Kabul: At least eleven ISIS militants were killed during the counter-terrorism operations in the past 24 hours in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarahr province.
A statement by the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army added that two key foreign supporters of the group and one of their commanders were also killed during the operations, Khaama Press reported.
Nangarhar is among the relatively calm provinces in East of Afghanistan but certain remote districts of it have witnessed growing insurgency mainly led by Taliban and ISIS during the recent years.
A major plan of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to establish the Khurasan province in Afghanistan has been foiled by the Afghan security forces, the acting Minister of Defense Tariq Shah Bahrami said Saturday.
Bahrami further added that the Afghan security forces have launched 12 large operations so far and dozens of medium and large operations while hundreds of airstrikes have been conducted on the hideouts of the group.
