Death Toll From 'Mother Of All Bombs' Hits 94
April 17 2017
The number of militants killed in the largest non-nuclear weapons ever used by the U.S. military has risen to nearly 100, according to a provincial government official in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military dropped a huge conventional bomb last Thursday on tunnels used by the Islamic State in Afghanistan, reports CBS News.
The GBU-43, or Massive Ordnance Airblast Bomb (MOAB), was dropped by a MC-130 aircraft operated by Air Force Special Operations Command stationed in...
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