The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda repeated, in late January, a claim by the Iranian media agency Tasnim that U.S. troops “liberated 38-40 ISIL fighters from a Taliban prison in Badghis province, Afghanistan, killing 20-30 Taliban.”
Polygraph: Afghan military rejects Russia’s allegation of US ‘liberating Islamic State leaders’
Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers keep watch at the side of an ongoing attack in Kabul on Dec. 18, 2017.
