Hafiz Saeed, head of ISIS in Afghanistan, killed in U.S. drone strike

The reputed head of Islamic State’s Afghanistan branch, Hafiz Saeed, was killed by an American airstrike in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border, Pentagon officials confirmed Friday. Saeed, who is the purported leader of the group’s Afghan and Pakistan faction – known as Islamic State of Khorasan – was traveling through the Kot district…