US Airstrike Targets Islamic State Planner In Afghanistan

CNN: US military conducts airstrike against ISIS-K planner 

(CNN)The US has conducted an airstrike against an ISIS-K planner, a spokesman for US Central Command said in a statement Friday. 

"U.S. 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," spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said in the statement. 

The announcement of the strike came a day after President Joe Biden vowed to retaliate for a terrorist attack that killed 13 US service members and at least 170 others outside Kabul's international airport even as he said the frantic mission to airlift Americans from Afghanistan would continue. 

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WNU Editor: An air strike to kill someone that the Pentagon is claiming is an ISIS-K planner. I expected more. 

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