US says drone strike kills Daesh-K “planner” in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province bordering Pakistan, two days after the group claimed a deadly bombing outside Kabul airport
The air strike came after Biden declared that perpetrators of the attack would not be able to hide.
It said there was just one – at or near the Abbey Gate – followed by gunfire. The initial report of a second bombing at the nearby Baron Hotel proved to be false, said Major General Hank Taylor of the Pentagon's Joint Staff; he attributed the mistake to initial confusion. Biden still faces the problem over the longer term of containing an array of potential extremist threats based in Afghanistan, which will be harder with fewer US intelligence assets and no military presence in the nation.Emily Harding, a former CIA analyst and deputy staff director for the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she doubted Biden’s assurances that the United States will be able to monitor and strike terror threats from beyond Afghanistan’s borders.
More than 2,400 US service members died in the war and tens of thousands were injured over the past two decades.
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