LAGHMAN -- National Directorate of Security (NDS) special forces killed two masterminds of an "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) assassination squad in Nangarhar Province, the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan National Army said in a statement Friday (March 15).
The operation took place Thursday (March 14) in police district no. 8 in Jalalabad, said the statement.
Afghan forces arrested at least five suspects and confiscated a number of weapons belonging to the militants during the operation, officials said.