{"id":7550,"date":"2021-08-28T08:17:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T08:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=7550"},"modified":"2021-08-28T08:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T08:17:27","slug":"us-forces-target-isis-k-planner-in-nangarhar-after-kabul-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=7550","title":{"rendered":"US forces target ISIS-K planner in Nangarhar after Kabul attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An ISIS-Khorasan planner was killed in a \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d operation conducted by US military forces in the Nangahar province, a day after a terror attack in Kabul killed scores of people including 13 US troops.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement spokesperson, for US Central Command said US forces conducted the \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d operation on Friday targeting the ISIS-K planner and the initial indication was that they \u201ckilled the target\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUS military forces conducted an over the horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner the unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahat province of Afghanistan. The initial indication is that we killed the target,\u201d Navy Capt. Bill Urban said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know of no civilian casualties,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a suicide bomber and multiple ISIS-K gunmen killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 169 Afghan civilians in the attack at the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>ISKP on Thursday claimed responsibility for the blast.<\/p>\n<p>US President on Thursday vowed to retaliate for a terrorists attack, saying, \u201cWe will not forgive. We will not forget. We will hunt you down and make you pay\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: An ISIS-Khorasan planner was killed in a \u201ccounterterrorism\u201d operation conducted by US military forces in the Nangahar province, a day after a terror attack in Kabul killed scores of people including 13 US troops. In a statement spokesperson, for US Central Command said US forces conducted the \u201cover-the-horizon\u201d operation on Friday targeting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7552,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7550\/revisions\/7552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}