The United States confirmed Tuesday that the Taliban recently killed the terrorist who masterminded the Kabul airport suicide bombing, which in 2021 claimed the lives of at least 170 Afghan civilians and 13 US soldiers.
According to media such as The Washington Post or The New York Times, citing Joe Biden government officials, analysts from the US intelligence services discovered in early April that the terrorist, a leader of the Afghan branch of the State Islamic (IS), died in a Taliban operation in Afghanistan.
The information was later confirmed to EFE by the Pentagon, which shared a message from its spokesman, Brigadier General Pat Ryder, in which he asserted that “the IS conspirator responsible for planning the attack (…) died in Afghanistan at hands of the Taliban in early April.
The spokesman remarked that the US did not participate in the operation that ended the life of the terrorist, and recalled that the country has “capacities to monitor and destabilize IS and other potential threats to our citizens and interests.”
According to The New York Times, US officials began briefing the families of the soldiers killed in the attack on Monday.
The suicide attack at the Kabul airport occurred as the US military carried out a series of evacuations after the announcement of the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and the rapid advance of the Taliban.
In retaliation, Washington then killed an IS member in the country with a drone, although it did not specify if it was someone who had been involved in the attack.
Lately, the Taliban have increased their interventions against the jihadist group in Afghanistan. Despite the uptick in missions, authorities insist the terror group is under control and hardly a problem.
Since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan a year and a half ago, dozens of suspected members of IS have died in operations carried out by the fundamentalists, in an attempt to materialize the security guarantees that they boasted before arriving at the Government
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