The US-led coaltion has conducted hundreds of air and artillery strikes aimed at driving ISIS from its last remaining pocket of territory in Syria.
The announcement followed a US strike on Saturday that killed a senior Taliban leader in Afghanistan's Helmand province, a US military spokesman told CNN.
"We can confirm a US airstrike conducted yesterday resulted in the death of Taliban shadow governor Mullah Manan," Army Col. Dave Butler, a spokesman for US forces in Afghanistan, said. "We're driving toward a political solution. This killing doesn't have to continue."
Manan was the political and military leader of the Taliban in Helmand, one of the insurgency's most critical strongholds and the origin of much of its drug revenues. A US military official told CNN that a drone strike killed Manan.
BBC
One of the Taliban's most senior commanders has been killed in a US airstrike in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund was the Taliban's "governor" and military chief for the southern Helmand province.
He was killed in the Nawzad district of Helmand on Saturday night, provincial officials said.
The Taliban said his death was a "major loss" but it would not deter them in their efforts to take back control of Afghanistan.
But Afghan interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told the AFP news agency his death was a major blow to the Taliban and would "lower the morale" of its fighters in southern Afghanistan.
What's life like under the Taliban?
Militants 'threaten 70% of Afghanistan'
Who are the Taliban?
Helmand is where British troops were based for eight years before ground troops were withdrawn in 2014. Large parts of the province are now back under Taliban control.
The BBC is given rare access to see life under the Taliban
Video caption The BBC is given rare access to see life under the Taliban
BBC research earlier this year showed Taliban insurgents control more territory in the country than at any time since 2014.
It is estimated that about 15 million people - half the population - are living in areas that are either controlled by the Taliban or where its fighters are openly present and regularly mount attacks.
However, there have been intense efforts to persuade the Taliban to begin peace talks to end the fighting. It sent delegates to a meeting in Russia last month to discuss the issue, but has refused to hold direct talks with the Afghan government.
Who are the Taliban?
A hardline Islamic movement which swept to power in Afghanistan in 1996 after the civil war which followed the Soviet-Afghan war
They ruled Afghanistan until they were ousted by the US-led invasion five years later
In power, they imposed a brutal version of Sharia law, such as public executions and amputations, and banned women from public life
Men had to grow beards and women to wear the all-covering burka; television, music and cinema were banned
They sheltered al-Qaeda leaders, including 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden
これでISISもタリバンもこの県で壊滅。証拠隠滅。死人にくちなし。ドローン空爆でタリバンもISISも終了するのなら、オバマは一体在任中に何をしていたのか？嫁ぐるみでシノ世界の支援に熱心であっただけだった。
Wikipedia第44代合衆国大統領バラク・オバマはハンツマンを駐中国大使に指名すると発表した[11][12][13][14]。共和党員であるハンツマンが民主党政権に参加するというニュースは驚きをもって迎えられたが、ハンツマンは駐中国大使としてオバマ政権のために努力を惜しまず励んだ[15]。
2010年12月、公電で「中国が喧嘩早い外交姿勢のために世界中の友人を失っている」と送っていたことがウィキリークスの漏洩文書により明らかとなった。2011年1月31日、駐中国大使を4月30日付けで辞任する旨をオバマに届け出て[16]、2011年5月に退任した。2017年3月、第45代合衆国大統領ドナルド・トランプはハンツマンを駐ロシア大使に指名し、ハンツマンは受諾したと報道される[22]。同年7月、正式に指名される[23]。同年9月、上院で承認される [24]。 Wikipedia
2011年の時点で
アバターに支配されるムスリム側にも問題はあるが、戦争と盗賊しか仕事がなければ、仕事の供給者の思うがままに映画の社会を造ることができる。映画製作と違うのは本当に人が死ぬということ。映画のようなビン・ラーディン殺害証拠映像を安全な執務室で見て拍手している程度ならすぐに騙される。海に捨てさせたのは製作過程無知な大統領のせい。
さっそくですが、トランプ大統領は
US President Trump sent a letter to Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan requesting his country's help to end the nearly two-decades long conflict in Afghanistan, just weeks after engaging in a Twitter spat with the Pakistani leader cnn.it/2EbnheY
