The Taliban on Saturday claimed that over 50 Daesh/ISIS militants “surrendered” in the restive eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
An official statement from the Taliban’s intelligence headquarters in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, said that 55 fighters associated with the Daesh/ISIS terrorist group had laid down their guns there.
It said the head of the intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security in Nangarhar, Doctor Bashir, granted “conditional pardon” through mediation by tribal elders to these former fighters who had been carrying out destructive activities in the Kot, Spin Ghar, and Achin districts of the province.
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