U.S. Drone Strike In Afghanistan Kills ISIS Recruiter Who Was Once Held In Guantanamo

The top recruiter for the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was killed in an American drone strike on Monday, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday, marking the first targeted attack on a leader of the IS extremists in that country.

During the Taliban’s rule, which ended in late 2001, Rauf was a corps commander in the western province of Herat and in Kabul. Rauf spent years in the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba before being released in Afghanistan in 2007. He was jailed in Afghanistan and released in 2009.

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