Drone Strike Against ISIS-K Killed 2 High-Profile Targets, Pentagon Says

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Source: NPR

Drone Strike Against ISIS-K Killed 2 High-Profile Targets, Pentagon Says

Updated August 28, 2021 3:36 PM ET
DAVE MISTICH

Two targets were killed and another person was injured in a drone strike against the Islamic State affiliate ISIS-K in retaliation for the Kabul airport attack, the Pentagon says. And the Department of Defense has released the names of the U.S. troops killed in Thursday's attack.

Department officials announced Friday evening that a drone strike killed an ISIS-K target in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. On Saturday, officials updated that to say that two "high-profile" targets — described as "a planner and a facilitator" — were killed and one other person from the terrorist group was injured in the retaliatory strike.

"This strike was not the last," President Biden said in a statement Saturday. "We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay."

Pentagon officials offered more information Saturday about continued operations in Afghanistan, including evacuation efforts and the drone strike.

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