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US conducts airstrike against ISIS-K planner in Afghanistan
US Airstrike
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US conducts airstrike against ISIS-K planner in Afghanistan

| @indiablooms | 28 Aug 2021, 09:17 am

Washington/Kabul: The US has conducted a drone airstrike on terror group ISIS-K planner in eastern Afghanistan, a day after President Joe Biden vowed to retaliate following bomb blasts in Kabul on Thursday that left over 100 dead.

In a statement issued, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said: "U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner."

"The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties," he said.

A series of terrorist attacks, led by the Islamic State, in the Afghan capital of Kabul left over 100 people dead on Thursday.

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The Wall Street Journal reported that at least 103 people – 90 Afghan civilians and 13 US servicemen – have been killed in the attacks.

As many as 1,338 people have been injured by the terrorist attacks, a source in the Afghan Ministry of Health told Sputnik Friday.

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