At least 20 militants were killed today in a US drone strike in Nangarhar province close to the zero line near Pakistan’s Khyber tribal region In Afghanistan,.
Security sources said, those killed belonged to the militant Islamic State group in Afghanistan.
They were killed when the drone targeted suspected militant hideouts in Nangarhar’s Achin district. Several suspected insurgent compounds were also destroyed in the attack.
Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province borders the Khyber Agency in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas.