Kabul — Afghanistan has welcomed the reported death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a major blow to terrorism that is expected to weaken the South Asian branch of the Middle Eastern militant group.
The emergence of an Afghan affiliate of Islamic State in recent years created another enemy for the US-backed government, which has been fighting against the much larger Taliban insurgency since 2001...
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