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US MOAB strike in Afghanistan killed 90 IS fighters

The number of Islamic State fighters killed by a massive US bomb in eastern Afghanistan has nearly tripled to at least 90, Afghan officials said on Saturday. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb—dubbed the “Mother Of All Bombs”—was unleashed in combat for the first time, hitting IS positions in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday.

Updated : 15 April 2017, 01:55 PM

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