US forces killed the leader of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan branch in a raid earlier this week in the northeastern province of Kunar, the Pentagon said Friday. “US forces killed Abu Sayed, the emir of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria — Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) — in a strike on the group’s headquarters in … Read more
An Afghan father and his two young children were killed Monday when US troops opened fire after their convoy hit a roadside bomb, local authorities said. The civilian and his sons, aged seven and 10, died near their home in the eastern province of Nangarhar, where American forces are conducting joint operations against militants from … Read more
The Pentagon on Friday said it was investigating whether two U. S. special operations commandos who were killed in Afghanistan this week had been struck by friendly fire. Army Ranger sergeants Joshua Rodgers, 22, and Cameron Thomas, 23, died in a raid overnight Wednesday-Thursday as they helped attack a headquarters compound of the Islamic State … Read more
Two US troops were killed and another wounded while fighting an Islamic State group affiliate in Afghanistan, the US military said Thursday. US Forces-Afghanistan said the troops “came under attack during a raid against insurgents in Nangarhar province” late Wednesday. The troops were working with partnered Afghan soldiers in the raid against IS Khorasan, a … Read more
The GBU-43, otherwise known as the Mother of All Bombs, or MOAB unleashes a devastating fireball that incinerates anything within 30 feet when it first detonates. In the milliseconds following the initial blast, all the oxygen would have been sucked out of the tunnels and for hundreds of feet around, literally sucking the life out … Read more