Pakistani media, quoting the country's security officials, have claimed that Sanaullah Ghafari, known as Shahab al-Muhajar, the leader of the ISIS terrorist group, Khorasan, was killed in Kunar province of Afghanistan.

One of the media close to the Islamic Emirate has published an audio recording attributed to the leader of ISIS in Afghanistan, in which he admits that there are few commanders of this group left in Afghanistan.