Kabul: At least 21 loyalists of dreaded terror group Islamic State have been executed in a military operation carried in the East of Afghanistan, media reports have said.
According to the local media, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that the operation was conducted by the Afghan ground and Air force in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The MoD further said that the terror group had a stronghold in Nangarhar and the loyalists were targeted in the restive Achin district.
The news comes amid speculation over Chief of terror group Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an air strike by US-led coalition forces on one of the group’s command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq.
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According to an Express UK report, quoting Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV, local sources said that Baghdadi and other leaders of the militant group were wounded on Thursday in country’s Nineveh province during a bombing raid by coalition forces. There were also unconfirmed reports of Baghdadi’s death.
"The planes of the international coalition yesterday (June 9) bombed a location where there is a base of ISIS members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh. The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own that site," Express UK quoted an Iraqi source as saying.
The area is one of the group’s strongholds, it said, adding that "Baghdadi and the other ISIS leaders arrived in Iraq from Syria with a convoy of cars".
A spokesman for the US-led coalition said that he had seen the reports but had nothing to confirm this at this time.
