Retaliatory US Airstrike Kills ISIS-K Planner In Afghanistan

By promising to strike the extremists who killed 13 Individuals and dozens of Afghans, President Joe Biden now confronts the fact of discovering and concentrating on them in an unstable nation with out U.S. navy and intelligence groups on the bottom and no assist from a pleasant authorities in Kabul.

Late Friday, U.S. Central Command Capt. Invoice City stated that the U.S. navy carried out an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangahar province concentrating on an “ISIS-Okay planner.”

“Preliminary indications are that we killed the goal. We all know of no civilian casualties,” City stated in a press release.

The Pentagon stated the airstrike was a retaliation for the lethal Kabul airport assault.

The president was warned Friday to count on one other deadly assault within the closing days of a frantic U.S.-led evacuation. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Biden’s national security crew supplied a grim outlook.

“They suggested the president and vp that one other terror assault in Kabul is probably going, however that they’re taking most pressure safety measures on the Kabul airport,” Psaki stated, echoing what the Pentagon has been saying for the reason that bombing Thursday at Kabul airport that pushed the White Home deeper into disaster over a chaotic and lethal conclusion to a struggle that started almost 20 years in the past.

The State Division once more urged Individuals to keep away from airport gates, together with “the New Ministry of Inside gate.”