Taliban’s shadow district chief killed in airstrike

Afghanistan: The shadow district chief of Taliban for Faizbad district of Jawzjan province has been killed in an airstrike of the Afghan Air Force, Afghan military said in a statement on Saturday.

The 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan Military in the North in a statement said Qari Rasool, the group’s shadow district chief for Faizabad of Jawzjan, has been killed in an airstrike of the Afghan armed forces.

The statement further added that the airstrike also left at least four fighters of Qari Rasool dead.

A vehicle and five weapons including PKM machine guns werealso destroyed during the same airstrike, the 209th Shaheen Corps added in its statement.