Drone kills six ISIS militants near Khyber Agency

PESHAWAR - At least six suspected militants were killed yesterday in a US drone strike in Nazyan district near Pak-Afghan border in Khyber Agency. Security sources said the drone targeted a militant compound in Nazyan district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, on the zero line bordering Khyber Agency. The drone strike killed six militants while the compound was completely destroyed. The sources added all the six militants belonged to the self-styled Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan.

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