Abu Saad Erhabi
ابو سعد ارهابي
4th Wali of ISIS – Khorasan Province
In office 12 July 2017 – 25 August 2018
Preceded by	Abdul Rahman Ghaleb
Succeeded by	Abu Omar al-Khorasani
Personal details
Died	25 August 2018 Nangarhar Province
Military service
Allegiance	ISIS– Khorasan Province (2017–2018)

Abu Saad Erhabi, also known as Abu Saad Orakzai, was a Pakistani Islamic jihadist militant and fourth head ( wali) of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISIS–K). Erhabi should not be confused with his similarly-named predecessor Abu Sayed, also known as Abu Sayed Bajauri or Abdul Rahman Ghaleb.

Early life

From Orakzai Agency

Islamic militancy

Country	Date	Article	Location	Description	Dead	Injured
Afghanistan	25 July 2017		Sar-e Pol City	Militants affiliated with ISIS-K beheaded a man allegedly over sorcery in the capital of the northern province of Sar-e-Pol. [1]	1	0
Afghanistan	31 July 2017		Kabul	ISIS-K militants committed an attack on the Iraqi Embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul. One terrorist blew himself up and another three entered the embassy. Two Afghan guards were killed and three others injured in the attack. [2]	2 (+4)	3
Afghanistan	1 August 2017	2017 Herat mosque attack	Herat	Two suicide bombers attacked a Shia mosque in Herat. One of the bombers shot at worshipers with a rifle before detonating himself.	33 (+2)	66
Afghanistan	30 August 2017		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in front of the house of an Afghan MP in Jalalabad. The explosion killed two guards and injured another one. A second attacker was killed before he could detonate himself. [3]	2 (+2)	1
Afghanistan	20 October 2017	20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks	Du Layna, Ghor	A suicide bombing in a Sunni mosque of Ghor Province. The main target of the attack was a local commander from the anti-Taliban Jamiat party. [4] [5]	33 (+1)	10
Afghanistan	20 October 2017		Kabul	A suicide bomber attacked inside a Shia mosque in Kabul. [6]	56 (+1)	55
Afghanistan	31 October 2017		Kabul	An ISIS-K suicide bomber blew himself up in Kabul.[ citation needed]	14 (+1)	13
Afghanistan	7 November 2017		Kabul	A TV building was attacked in downtown Kabul by three militants. An employee and a security guard were killed. At least one militant blew himself up while the others were killed during a gunfight with security forces. ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack. [7]	2 (+3)	20
Afghanistan	16 November 2017		Kabul	At least 19 people including eight police officers and ten civilians were killed in a bomb explosion outside a restaurant in Kabul. [8] [9] [10]	19	10
Afghanistan	18 December 2017		Kabul	Gunmen attacked a training center of the National Directorate of Security in Kabul, injuring two policemen. All three attackers were gunned downed. [11]	0 (+3)	2
Afghanistan	25 December 2017		Kabul	A suicide bomb attack near the compound of Afghanistan's intelligence agency in Kabul. [12]	10 (+1)	5
Afghanistan	28 December 2017	December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing	Kabul	A suicide bomber stormed a Shi'ite cultural center and news agency in the Afghan capital, killing and wounding some including a number of students attending a conference. Two other bombs were detonated in the zone. [13] [14]	50 (+1)	80
Afghanistan	4 January 2018		Kabul	A suicide bombing targeted a mobile police checkpoint in Kabul. [15]	20	30
Afghanistan	7 January 2018		Kunar	Insurgents stormed a security checkpoint in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province. [16]	3	8
Afghanistan	24 January 2018	2018 Save the Children Jalalabad attack	Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A complex attack began with a suicide car bomb outside the Save The Children offices in the city of Jalalabad followed by gunmen entering the compound and fighting Afghan special forces. [17] [18]	6	27
Afghanistan	29 January 2018		Kabul	11 Afghan soldiers were killed and 16 others were injured when five ISIS-K militants attacked an army post in Kabul. Four attackers were later killed by the security forces and another was arrested. [19]	11 (+4)	16
Afghanistan	24 February 2018		Kabul	A suicide blast in the Shash Darak area of Kabul. [20] [21]	3 (+1)	6
Afghanistan	7 March 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber killed three people including the local head of the Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs. [22] [23]	3 (+1)	16
Afghanistan	9 March 2018		Kabul	A suicide bomber set off explosives in a crowd of Shiite Muslims near a mosque complex in Kabul. [24]	10 (+1)	22
Afghanistan	19 March 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A motorcycle bombing in Jalalabad in the Afghan province of Nangarhar. [25]	4	11
Afghanistan	21 March 2018	March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing	Kabul	A suicide bombing near a Shiite shrine in Kabul occurred as Afghans celebrated the Persian New Year. [26] [27]	33 (+1)	65
Afghanistan	25 March 2018		Herat	Two suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Herat, killing three including the two bombers. [28] [29]	1 (+2)	9
Afghanistan	30 March 2018		Watapur, Kunar	A member of the provincial council of Kunar and a religious scholar were killed in a suicide bombing in the Watapur district of Kunar province. A security guard was also wounded in the attack. [30] [31]	2 (+1)	1
Afghanistan	17 April 2018		Darzab, Jowzjan	IS fighters beheaded a 12-year-old boy in Darzab district in the northern Afghan province of Jowzjan. [32]	1	0
Afghanistan	22 April 2018	22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing	Kabul	A suicide bomb attack at a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul. The casualties were all civilians most of whom had been waiting outside the office to apply for their IDs to register to vote in the upcoming elections. [33] [34] [35]	69 (+1)	120
Afghanistan	22 April 2018		Chaparhar, Nangarhar	Three brothers were beheaded by ISIS-K militants in Chaparhar district in Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. [36]	3	0
Afghanistan	29 April 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	At least seven people including children and policemen were injured in a bomb attack near a voter registration center in Jalalabad, the capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. [37] [38]	0	7
Afghanistan	30 April 2018	30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings	Kabul	Two suicide bombings in the Afghan capital Kabul. [39] [40]	29 (+2)	50
Afghanistan	4 June 2018		Kabul	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives targeting a gathering of Afghanistan's top clerics in Kabul. Afterwards, a magnetic bomb attached to a police car exploded and as a result three people were wounded.	14 (+1)	22
Afghanistan	11 June 2018		Kabul	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at an Afghan ministry in Kabul.	17 (+1)	40
Afghanistan	16 June 2018		Rodat, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber attacked at a gathering of Taliban and Afghan armed forces in the Rodat district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.	36 (+1)	65
Afghanistan	17 June 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the governor's compound in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad.	25 (+1)	50
Afghanistan	30 June 2018		Khogyani, Nangarhar	IS militants beheaded at least three people working as attendants for a local school in the Khogyani district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The school building was also set on fire.	3	0
Afghanistan	1 July 2018	July 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing	Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in the center of the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing at least 20 people including several members of the Sikh minority.	20 (+1)	20
Afghanistan	5 July 2018		Khogyani, Nangarhar	Three Taliban militants including one commander were killed and four civilians injured in a bomb blast in the Khogyani district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.	0 (+3)	4
Afghanistan	9 July 2018		Chaparhar, Nangarhar	At least nine civilians including two children were injured in a bomb explosion in the Chaparhar district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar.	0	9
Afghanistan	9 July 2018		Khogyani, Nangarhar	A Taliban insurgent and a civilian were killed in the Khogyani district of the Afghan province of Nangarhar.	1(+1)	0
Afghanistan	10 July 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a petrol pump, killing two officials working for Afghanistan's intelligence agency and 10 civilians including children and sparking a fire that burned eight cars in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. Five other people were taken to hospital.	12 (+1)	5
Afghanistan	11 July 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A militant attack on the building of the provincial education department in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad. One suicide bomber detonated his explosives while two more were shot dead by the security forces in a gunfight lasting several hours.	12 (+3)	9
Pakistan	13 July 2018	13 July 2018 Pakistan bombings	Mastung, Balochistan	At least 131 people were killed [41] and more than 300 others injured in a suicide bombing at election rally. [42]	131	300+
Afghanistan	15 July 2018		Kabul	A suicide bomber blew himself up near a government ministry in Kabul.	8 (+1)	17
Afghanistan	17 July 2018		Sayyad District	27 including some Taliban militants were killed in a suicide bombing that targeted a funeral for a deceased person in the Sayyad district of the northern Afghan province of Sar-e Pol.	27 (+1)	23
Afghanistan	20 July 2018		Bagrami District	A child was injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up before reaching his target in the Bagrami district of Kabul province.	0 (+1)	1
Afghanistan	22 July 2018		Kabul	At least 23 people including an AFP driver were killed in a suicide bombing near Kabul International Airport as scores of people were leaving the airport after welcoming home Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile.	23 (+1)	107
Afghanistan	22 July 2018		Surkh-Rōd, Nangarhar	A gunman opened fire in a mosque in the Surkh-Rōd district in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, killing four people and injuring three others, including the mosque's religious leader.	4	3
Pakistan	25 July 2018	2018 Quetta suicide bombing	Quetta, Balochistan	At least 31 people including five policemen and two children were killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a polling station in the Pakistani city of Quetta.	31 (+1)	40
Afghanistan	28 July 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	Two security guards and a driver were killed after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives and another attacker stormed into a training center for midwives in Jalalabad, the capital of the Afghan province of Nangarhar. The second attacker was shot in an hour-long battle with the security forces.	3 (+2)	8
Afghanistan	30 July 2018		Rodat, Nangarhar	A local tribal elder and three of his family members were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Rodat district of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar. The son of the tribal leader also underwent some injuries in the attack.	4 (+1)	1
Afghanistan	31 July 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	A suicide bomber blew up a car near the entrance to the Department of Refugees and Returnees in the Afghan city of Jalalabad and then two armed men stormed the building. The attackers took several hostages during the attack. Security killed both gunmen after about six hours.	14 (+3)	26
Afghanistan	3 August 2018		Gardez, Paktika	Two militants dressed in burqa entered a Shiite mosque in the town of Gardez in the province of Paktia and opened fire. Both attackers later blew themselves up.	48 (+2)	70
Afghanistan	5 August 2018		Jalalabad, Nangarhar	Three officers of the Afghan National Army were killed and three others injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives in front of an army checkpoint in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad.	3 (+1)	3
Afghanistan	15 August 2018		Kabul	A suicide bombing in an educative academy of Kabul.	48	67

Death

On 25 August 2018, United States forces in Afghanistan conducted an airstrike in Khogyani District, Nangarhar Province as part of a larger, combined NATO and Afghan military operation to target ISIS–K strongholds.

See also

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