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The largest Non-nuclear bomb In the US military inventory has just been dropped on an ISIS target in Afghanistan. The bomb 'GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb' nicknamed the Mother of all bombs(MOAB) was dropped over over the Achin district of Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, which borders northwest Pakistan at 7:30PM(US Local time). The MOAB, which was developed during the Iraq War, is the US's largest nonnuclear bomb and had not been used in combat until now.The 30-foot-long bomb weighs 21,000 pounds — 18,700 pounds of which is the warhead — and was dropped from a C-130 aircraft a little after 7 p.m. local time on Thursday, the Pentagon said.The MOAB had to be dropped out of the back of a U.S. Air Force C-130 cargo plane due to its massive size.

"This is a weapon that would be used against a large footprint on the ground," CNN analyst Barbara Starr said.

The target in question was reportedly an ISIS complex of tunnels, caves, and a camp where personnel were assembling. "As [ISIS'] losses have mounted, they are using IEDs, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense," Gen. John Nicholson, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, said in a statement. "This is the right munition to reduce these obstacles and maintain the momentum of our offensive against [ISIS]."
President Trump told media Thursday afternoon that "this was another successful mission" and he gave the military total authorization. Trump was also asked whether dropping the bomb sends a warning to North Korea,

"North Korea is a problem, the problem will be taken care of," said Trump"

Russia, Pakistan, and China have also warned of increasing ISIS activity in Afghanistan.
Ismail Shinwari, the governor of Achin district, said the U.S. attack was carried out in a remote mountainous area with no civilian homes nearby and that there had been no reports of injured civilians. He said there has been heavy fighting in the area in recent weeks between Afghan forces and ISIS militants. However,
Hamid Karzai, the former president of Afghanistan, posted on Twitter that he condemned the attack "vehemently" and "in [the] strongest words."

"This is not the war on terror but the inhuman and most brutal misuse of our country as [a] testing ground for new and dangerous weapons," Karzai said. "It is upon us, Afghans, to stop the #USA."

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