14 April 2017

News Story: U.S. drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan

MOAB prototype (Image: Wiki Commons)
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. military has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan on an Islamic State target, the Pentagon said Thursday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday gave the order for the U.S. military to drop a GBU-43 or Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb on an IS cave complex in Nangarhar Province in Afghanistan, the first time such a bomb has been used in combat.

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