The Pentagon announced on Friday that U.S. forces killed a senior member of the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s Afghanistan branch, known as ISIS-K.

A July 11 airstrike in the country’s Kunar province killed Abu Sayed, the emir of ISIS-K, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement quoted by AFP.

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