The Pentagon said on Saturday that US has carried out drone strike against Islamic State 'planner' in Afghanistan.
US killed an Islamic State planner in Afghanistan in retaliation for Thursday's suicide bombing in Kabul.
Spokesman for US Central Command, Captain Bill Urban, said that ‘US military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation against an ISIS-K planner’. Providing further details he said the unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan and that as per ‘initial indications’ they have ‘killed the target’. He also stated that there was no information on any civilian casualties.
Meanwhile, US has also asked its citizens to leave Kabul airport gates 'immediately'.
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ISIS-K, an offshoot of the Islamic State group, has said it was responsible for the suicide attack outside Kabul's airport which killed at least 95 Afghans and 13 US soldiers.
President Joe Biden had vowed revenge on the ISIS group that attacked the Kabul Airport saying US will 'hunt you down and make you pay'
United States forces in Kabul are on alert for more attacks after the suicide bombing at Kabul airport. National Security team met US President and warned of "an ongoing and acute threat from ISIS-K"