“US military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” a press release by Central Command spokesperson Captain Bill Urban learn.
Islamic State Khorasan Province is Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Hundreds of Afghans determined to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul’s airport Friday, even after one of many deadliest bombings within the nation’s historical past, because the demise toll from the day past’s blast neared 200 with a whole lot extra wounded, maintaining town’s hospitals grimly busy all day. The suicide bombing ripped proper into the jostling throng on Thursday afternoon, piling an adjoining sewage canal with corpses. Health officers stated no less than 170 civilians had been killed, and sure extra. The assault additionally killed 13 US service members.
