Photo: A US solider calls in airstrikes over Bagh Dara Valley. (Supplied: Coffee, or Die Magazine)
ABC News Online: Australian soldier fighting with US Green Berets against IS in Afghanistan
Five years after Australia's combat operations officially ended in Afghanistan, an elite Australian soldier remains on the front line in the war-torn country, fighting Islamic State (IS) militants.
The Special Forces soldier known as "Mark" is attached to a group of elite American "Green Berets", who have been operating in eastern Afghanistan's isolated Mohmand Valley, near the Pakistan border.
His dangerous "advise and assist" mission in the remote Nangarhar province has been documented by journalist Marty Skovlund Jr, who also once served as an American Special Operations soldier.
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WNU Editor: This Australian soldier's remarks on what are the differences between ISIS fighters and Taliban fighters is telling ....
.... "They're drug addicts, or mentally unstable folks (ISIS fighters) … whereas the Taliban is much more your regular Afghan that has a different take on what the direction of the country should be."
