ISIL financier in Central Asia destroyed

Bishkek, May 6, 2019 / Kabar /. One of the leaders of the Islamic State (IS) has been destroyed in Afghanistan, Лента.ру reported with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
The special forces could eliminate Mufti Uzbek in Baghlan province, who was responsible for the financial support of the IS in Central Asia. In addition to a high-ranking member of the terrorist group, three ordinary militants were killed. During the special operation a large number of weapons were seized.
The liquidation of Sultan Aziz Azam, the representative of Wilayat Khorasan - the entire IS cell in Pakistan and Afghanistan, was reported in Afghanistan at the end of December 2018. He was also responsible for recruitment and was involved in the massacres of civilians.
The Islamic State significantly increased its power in Afghanistan after losing positions in Iraq and Syria in 2017. Zamir Kabulov, the special representative of the President and director of the Second Asia Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, explained that Moscow was the first to sound the alarm because of the concentration of militants in the Afghan provinces bordering Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.