TEHRAN, August 1- Over 150 Daesh Takfiri terrorists have surrendered to Afghan security forces in the northern province of Jawzjan after they were defeated by Taliban.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Local Afghan officials said 152 terrorists from the Daesh strongholds of Darzab and Qush Tepa surrendered in the early hours of Wednesday.
"Their fighters have surrendered in the past, but this time it is more important because the Daesh leader and deputy surrendered with more than 150 fighters all at once," said Mohammad Hanif Rezaee, an army spokesman. "With this the Daesh chapter is going to be closed in the north."
General Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the provincial police chief, said Habib-ul Rahman, a senior Daesh leader, was among those who surrendered.
The Taliban militant group took credit for the surrender announced by Afghan officials, saying it had "cleared" the north of Daesh terrorists.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said more than 150 Daesh terrorists had been killed and more than 130 captured by Taliban with the rest surrendering to government forces rather than Taliban. "The evil phenomenon of Daesh has completely been eliminated and people have been freed from its tortures in Jawzjan province of Afghanistan."
Taliban launched an offensive several weeks ago in Jawzjan against Daesh.
In a separate development, the UN mission to Afghanistan said an employee of the International Organization of Migration (IOM) was among the people who were killed in a coordinated attack on a refugee and repatriation center in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday.
The UN said in a statement that the employee who died was a 22-year-old woman whose husband had died in a bombing in Kabul three years earlier. It said she leaves behind a six-year-old daughter who is “now an orphan.”
“The potent state hacking tools manufactured by NSO Group allow for an extraordinarily invasive form of surveillance. A smartphone infected with Pegasus is essentially controlled by the attacker – it can relay phone calls, photos, messages and more directly to the operator. This chilling attack on Amnesty International highlights the grave risk posed to activists around the world by this kind of surveillance technology.”
According to Amnesty, the domain link in the message belongs to a large infrastructure of more than 600 suspicious websites which had been previously connected to NSO Group. Amnesty International’s investigation discovered that another Saudi Arabia rights activist also received a similar malicious message.
In a statement to Amnesty International, NSO Group said that their product was “intended to be used exclusively for the investigation and prevention of crime and terrorism" and that any other use would violate their policies and contracts. It also said that allegations of wrongdoing would be investigated.
NSO has been implicated in a series of digital break-in attempts, including against activists, journalists and opposition party leaders looking into murders and corruption in Mexico.
Pegasus was also used to target the Emirati award-winning human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, one of the few openly critical voices in the UAE who has been in prison in the United Arab Emirates since March 2017.
Source: Press TV
No one immediately claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s attack.
Since late last year, Daesh, which has already lost all its urban strongholds in Syria and Iraq, has taken advantage of the chaos in Afghanistan and established a foothold in the Asian country’s eastern and northern regions, launching brutal attacks against civilians and security forces alike.
According to Afghan intelligence documents, Daesh is present in nine provinces, from Nangarhar and Kunar in the east to Jawzjan, Faryab, and Badakhshan in the north, and Ghor in the central west.
Source: Press TV
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