at this point, this was someone who was an isis planner and involved in planning for future attacks by isis. the individual was riding in a vehicle at the time of this drone strike, the u.s. military is confident that they took out this person. apparently, he was with some sort of an associate. they re saying that right now they don t have any reports of civilian casualties in this. in fact, they were in a vehicle and they were in an isolated area at the time. so this occurred in nangarhar in, eastern afghanistan, east of kabul. and it has been known to have an isis-k presence for several years now. in fact, it is an area in which there have been a lot of fighting between isis-k and the taliban, believe it or not. so, it is not a surprise that this would be where they might try and find someone who might be involved in the planning or the command and control, or someone who is in more of a leadership position of isis. so it s not a big isis present overall in afghanistan, it is
isis k planner who was planning future attacks. joining us by form is panic on correspondent we what we know about tonight is that this was a military drone. it was a strike with direct retaliation from the airport yesterday. look according to the officials i spoke with, it was someone who was believed to have been involved in planning for future attacks by isis k. it is one individual. he was isolated in a vehicle at the time of that the drone struck. the military did not believe that there were civilian casualties in the strike. it occurred in the eastern part of afghanistan, east of kabul, and it is right along the border with pakistan. it is an area that isis-k had a safe haven in up until a couple
air strike took place in nangarhar province, east of kabul, bordering papakistan. initial indications was that the target was killed and they don t have reports of civilian casualties. according to officials, a reaper drone took off from somewhere in the middle east, struck the militant while he was in a car with an associate and both of them have been killed. also a senior taliban commander also said that some isis-k members had been arrested in connection with the kabul attack and are being interrogated by a taliban intelligence team. the u.s. troops overseeing this evacuation have been forced into a closer security cooperation with the taliban to provide safe passage to the airport initially and now to help prevent a repeat of those suicide bombings, which is an extraordinary situation for u.s. service members to be in. they re now relying on the taliban, an enemy they ve been fighting against for the last two decades to provide them with
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