Daesh Terrorists Killed in Afghan Operation

Date: 21 May 2019 - 21:40

News ID: ۶۶۲۵۸

KABUL (Dispatches) – Four Daesh terrorists have been killed in eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the government said on Tuesday.
"The National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel launched an operation in Chaparhar district, Nangarhar province, killing four Daesh fighters," Presidential Information Coordination Center (Tawhid Center) said in a statement.
The statement did not disclose the exact time of the operation conducted by the NDS, the primary intelligence agency of the country.
Mountainous Nangarhar province, 120 km east of Kabul, has been the scene of clashes between security forces and Daesh terrorists from time to time.
The clashes have forced thousands of villagers to flee to safer places.
Russia’s top intelligence official has warned that nearly 5,000 terrorists belonging to a Daesh affiliate and with battle experience in Syria have converged in areas in northern Afghanistan bordering post-Soviet Central Asian republics.
Alexander Bortnikov, the director of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), said on Tuesday that a local affiliate of the Daesh terrorist group had managed to gather as many as 5,000 militants in the area, according to RT.
Addressing the chiefs of intelligence services from ex-Soviet republics in Tajikistan’s capital of Dushanbe, Bortnikov said, "Especially worrying is re-deployment of terrorist groups into northern provinces of Afghanistan.”
The Russian official said terrorist cells were currently infiltrating into Afghanistan’s northern neighbors in an attempt to establish ties with organized crime. He said the terrorists were trying to slip through posing as refugees.
Daesh has been militarily defeated in Syria and Iraq, the two Arab countries where the terrorist group overtook pieces of land starting in 2014. But the group has not been disbanded altogether.
The remarks by Bortnikov came a day after authorities in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan announced that a prison riot started by convicted Daesh terrorists left 32 inmates and prison guards dead.
The FSB director had cautioned last month that Daesh terrorists were returning to their native countries and establishing terrorist cells.
Many of the foreign terrorists fighting alongside Daesh in Syria and Iraq have been killed in anti-terror operations by the militaries of the two countries. But those who have survived have long been known to pose serious threats to their native countries once they manage to return.