Afghani Spy Agency Reports that Leader of ISIS in the Country Was Killed in Drone Strike

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BY KATIE LAPOTIN (1 DAY AGO) | HEADLINES, WORLD

Afghan intelligence agency NDS reported Friday that Hafiz Saeed (Khan), the leader of the Islamic State, or ISIS in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was recently killed via drone strike.

The agency said, per CNN:

“As a result of efforts made by the NDS, the location of ISIS fighters’ gathering was found and the information was shared with the coalition forces who then carried out an airstrike on them.”

Saeed is believed to have perished along with about 30 other ISIS members in the strike on Achin in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. His death has yet to be independently confirmed.

The Islamic State has yet to respond to the reports of Saeed’s death nor has the Afghan government confirmed the strike, per the BBC. He was previously rumored to have died while planting a bomb in April.

He is not the same Hafiz Saeed, who has a $10 million bounty on his head for orchestrating the 2008 terror attacks on the city of Mumbai, India.

Friday’s strike was carried out by American-led coalition forces in coordination with intelligence provided by the spy agency. A senior U.S. military official toldNBC News:

“Were there some leaders among those killed? Probably, but we have no confirmation,” adding that there was no confirmation that Saeed was among the deceased.

A similar strike conducted Tuesday reportedly killed Shahidullah Shahid, a former member of the Taliban who later defected to ISIS. Shahid’s death has also not been independently confirmed.

Although the branch of ISIS in Afghanistan isn’t as big or successful as its Syrian or Iraqi counterparts, it has been tied to violence in recent months. A suicide bomber in April killed 33 people and injured more than 100 others in front of the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad.

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