The operation targeted a "planner" from the IS-K group in Nangahar Province.
IS-K said it had carried out an attack in Kabul on Thursday that may have killed as many as 170 people, including 13 US troops.
The US said "initial indications" suggested the strike had killed the IS target, and no civilians had died.
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The United States has conducted an airstrike against the Islamic State-Khorasan (ISIS-K) terrorist group (banned in Russia) in eastern Afghanistan, leaving one militant killed, spokesman for the US Central Command Capt. Bill Urban said.
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The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target," Urban said in a statement on late Friday.
The United States military forces conducted a special operation in Afghanistan’s Nangahar province to eliminate an Islamic State (outlawed in Russia) planner of terrorist attacks, the US Central Command announced in a statement.
Delete"US military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner," the statement quoted US Central Command Spokesman William Urban as saying.
"The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan," he continued. "Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties."
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