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Input: A video grab taken from an undated video released by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and made available 09 July 2015 of the TTP's former spokesperson Shahidullah Shahid at an undisclosed location at the Pakistani-Afghan border. (Photo: TTP/Handout, EPA) 
  
 A senior leader for the Islamic State in Afghanistan, currently embroiled in a feud with the Taliban over who will conduct the insurgency there, has been killed in a U.S. drone strike, local media reported Thursday. 
  
 The strike killed Shahidullah Shahid and more than two dozen militants in eastern Afghanistan south of the city of Jalalabad. It was in that city where Islamic State militants conducted their first major attack against Afghan civilians in April, killing 35 in a suicide bombing. 
  
 The drone strike was Tuesday, the same day Taliban officials met for the first time with an Afghanistan delegation in Islamabad, Pakistan, to open peace negotiations. 
  
 The Pentagon said Thursday that "precision strikes" by U.S. forces were carried out Monday and Tuesday south of Jalalabad "against individuals threatening U.S. and coalition forces." There was no elaboration. 
  
 Afghan intelligence officials told media that those killed in the drone strike included Shahid, a former Pakistan Taliban spokesman and another senior Islamic State leader in Afghanistan, Gul Zaman. 
  
 The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, controls vast portions of Syria and western Iraq. Last year, it began recruiting disaffected members of both the Pakistan and Afghan Taliban insurgencies and providing funding for opening a front in South Asia, said Seth Jones, a political scientist with RAND Corp. 
  
 "What they've done is they haven't built anything from scratch. They've just reached out to disaffected folks," Jones said. "It's possible, for example, if (Afghanistan government) negotiations continue with the Afghan Taliban, that those who don't want a peace deal may defect to the Islamic State. But the challenge the Islamic State has in this area is its ideology is foreign." 
  
 Shahid was named deputy chief for a region the Islamic State identifies as spanning parts of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. A cover story in an Islamic State magazine published in December was highly critical of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. 
  
 The Afghan Taliban reacted strongly to the intrusion publishing an open letter on its website in June warning the Islamic State to stay out of its territory. "Jihad against the Americans and their allies must be conducted under one flag and one leadership," the letter said. 
  
 Last year, Shahid was fired as Pakistani Taliban spokesman after pledging allegiance to the Islamic State. At the time the Pakistan Taliban said Shahidullah Shahid was a "nom de guerre" and that his real name was Sheikh Maqbool, the BBC reported. 
  
 A senior leader of Islamic State operations in southern Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Rauf, who had sworn allegiance to the militants after breaking with the Taliban, was killed in a U.S. drone strike in February. 
  
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 Written by Sayed Abbas Kazimi 
  
 Mawlavi Shahidullah Shahid, a former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman and the first to pledge allegiance to Daesh in Afghanistan, was killed in a drone strike in eastern Nangarhar, the Afghan intelligence agency said on Thursday. 
  
 Shahid, who was the leader of Daesh for Khorasan province – a state Daesh announced for the region – was killed Tuesday in a drone strike on Achin district in eastern Nangarhar, in which the deputy commander of Daesh Gul Zaman, his deputy Jahanyar and five others were also killed, said the National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Thursday. 
  
  
  
 "Shahidullah Shahid whose real name was Sheikh Maqbool wanted to launch a regional fight and that to begin from Afghanistan's Nangarhar province in order to become an influential figure of Daesh," NDS spokesman Haseeb Sediqi said. 
  
  
  
 He was the second most senior commander of Daesh in Afghanistan being killed in a week and the third over the past few months. 
  
  
  
 Pakistani Taliban sacked Shahid as its spokesman last year in October after he sworn allegiance to Daesh along with five other TTP commanders. 
  
  
  
 Daesh, which has seized large cities in Iraq and Syria, have been dramatically growing in Afghanistan as scores of Taliban and other militants have sworn allegiance to the extremist group. 
  
  
  
 Recently, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoI) announced the establishment of a joint unit aimed at heightening coordination among security institutions to more effectively combat Daesh affiliates in Afghanistan. 
  
 "Wherever Daesh are active and threatening the safety of our citizens will be targeted and eliminated," Sediqi stated. 
  
  
  
 Meanwhile, lawmakers and independent analysts welcomed air strikes against Taliban and Daesh sanctuaries in Nangarhar. They asked the government to launch a coordinated and massive ground operation against the militant groups. 
  
  
  
 "As long as air strikes continue, Daesh's expansion will be curbed," MP Mohammad Iqbal Safi said. |||||
Output:
A senior ISIS leader in Afghanistan was killed in a US drone strike Tuesday in the Nangarhar province, an Afghan news channel reports, per USA Today. "It was confirmed today that a senior leader of (ISIS) for Khorasan region, Shahidullah Shahid, has been killed in a drone strike," the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's domestic intelligence agency, said today, per Pakistan's Express Tribune, which adds that about two dozen other insurgents were also killed. Shahid, once known as Sheikh Maqbool, had served as the spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, but he was fired from that job when he decided to team up with ISIS last fall. "Shahidullah Shahid wanted to plan a major war in the region and present himself as a top leader of the terrorist group," the NDS says, per the Tribune. ISIS has not yet verified the NDS death report. (Meanwhile, our anti-ISIS training plan in Syria isn't doing terribly well.)