U.S. forces dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS target in eastern Afghanistan on April 13.
The GBU-43 bomb, nicknamed “Mother Of All Bombs,” contained 11 tons of explosives. Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said the bomb was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft onto a ISIS cave complex in Achin District, Nangarhar Province.
“We targeted a system of tunnels and caves that ISIS fighters used to move around freely, making it easier for them to target U.S. military advisers and Afghan forces in the area,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer at the daily briefing. “The United States takes the fight against ISIS very seriously and, in order to defeat the group, we must deny them operational space, which we did.”
