阿富汗的伊斯蘭國頭目被殺

The leader of Islamic State in Afghanistan has been killed in a joint raid in eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan and U.S. military officials confirmed Sunday.

“Sheikh Abdul Hasib, the Emir of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) in Afghanistan, was killed in a combined Afghan/U.S. raid,” the U.S. military said.

Dozens of Afghan and American special forces killed Sheikh Abdul Hasib along with his 35 fighters in a combined operation against an IS cave and tunnel complex in the Achin district, the statement added.

Other high-ranking IS leaders also are said to have been killed in the operation.

Hasib was appointed last year following the death of his predecessor, Hafiz Saeed Khan – a former Pakistani Taliban commander - in a U.S. drone strike in the same Afghan province.

Branching out from Iraq and Syria – and fueled by a growing militancy in Central Asia – Islamic State launched its operations in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region two years ago, naming it IS’s Khorasan province (IS-K) to cover Afghanistan, Pakistan and “other nearby lands.阿富汗和美國軍方官員星期天證實，在東部楠哥哈爾省進行的一次聯合攻擊行動中，阿富汗的伊斯蘭國頭目被打死。

美國軍方表示，被稱爲“伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯蘭國呼羅珊省埃米爾“的伊斯蘭謝赫·阿卜杜爾· 哈希卜在阿富汗和美國的一次聯合攻擊行動中被打死。

聲明補充說， 數十名阿富汗和美國特種部隊在針對一處位於阿欽地區的伊斯蘭國洞穴隧道綜合體進行聯合作戰行動時，打死了哈希卜和他的35名戰士。

據稱還有其他高級別伊斯蘭國領導人也在行動中被打死。

哈希卜的前任哈菲茲·薩伊德·汗是前巴基斯坦塔利班的一名指揮官，他去年在楠格哈爾省的一次無人機襲擊中被擊斃後， 哈希卜被任命爲阿富汗伊斯蘭國的頭目。

伊斯蘭國起自伊拉克和敘利亞，受到中亞地區不斷增長的極端勢力的推動，伊斯蘭國兩年前在阿富汗和巴基斯坦地區展開行動，並把包括阿富汗、巴基斯坦和‘其它鄰近地區’的這一區域稱爲伊斯蘭國的呼羅珊省。