KABUL - One year ago on this day, the US forces dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb on a Daesh stronghold in Achin district, in the east of Afghanistan. The bomb was dropped to eliminate the insurgent group’s biggest hideout in the country. However, Daesh is still active in parts of Achin ...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan claimed on Thursday that at least 13 Indian spies were also among those killed in a massive US bomb blast targeting Islamic State’s regional affiliate in Afghanistan.On April 13, the Pentagon announced that the US military dropped the ‘Mother of All Bombs (MOAB)’ – the ...

Eight days after the U.S. military dropped its largest ever conventional bomb on suspected Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Taliban militants breached an army base in the north of the country and killed scores of local soldiers.To Afghan and other critics of President Donald Trump's ...

Reports have surfaced that Indian nationals from Kerala who had joined ISIS either originally or sent by RAW as agents to the bordering areas of Pakistan have been killed in the US MOAB attack.Indian nationals were killed as United States dropped ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on an Islamic State of ...

MOSCOW: After the US’s ‘Mother of All Bombs’, Russia has come up with its own ‘Father of All Bombs’.The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast was unleashed by US in combat for the first time Thursday, hitting IS positions in a remote area of eastern Nangarhar province.The MOAB is the ...

A good number of houses and other buildings got damaged in villages in Kurram Agency near the Pak-Afghan border due to the impact of the so-called “mother of all bombs”, which the US dropped to hit the alleged bases of the militant group Daesh in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, locals ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan – The death toll from America’s mother of all bombs has nearly tripled, with Afghan officials saying Saturday some 90 Islamic State militants died in the attack.The US launched GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb in combat for the first time Thursday, hitting IS ...

JALALABAD: The death toll from America's largest non-nuclear bomb has nearly tripled, with Afghan officials saying Saturday some 90 Islamic State fighters died when the blast smashed their mountain hideout, as US-led forces began clean-up operations. Dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs", the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. commander in Afghanistan who ordered use of the "mother of all bombs" to attack an Islamic State stronghold near the Pakistani border didn't need and didn't request President Donald Trump's approval, Pentagon officials said Friday.The officials said that even before ...

ACHIN, AFGHANISTAN/KABUL: The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said on Friday that the decision to deploy one of the largest conventional bombs ever used in combat was purely tactical, and made as part of the campaign against Islamic State-linked fighters.As many as 36 suspected Islamic ...