2017 Nangarhar airstrike

When

13 Apr 2017

Kind

Event

Coordinates

34.07° N, 70.63° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2017 Nangarhar airstrike.

In the 2017 Nangarhar airstrike, the U.S. drops the GBU-43/B MOAB, the world's largest non-nuclear weapon, at an ISIL base in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan.

US bombing of IS-KP in Afghanistan

On 13 April 2017, the United States conducted an airstrike in Achin District, located in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. The airstrike was carried out using the largest non-nuclear weapon in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of destroying tunnel complexes used by the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (IS-KP).

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Estados Unidos lanza por primera vez una bomba GBU-43 contra posiciones de la banda terrorista Estado Islámico en la localidad de Achin, en Afganistán”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “الولايات المتحدة تشن غارة جوية على ننكرهار في أفغانستان عن طريق أكبر قنبلة غير نووية معروفة باسم جي بي يو-43/بي وأسفرت عن مقتل أكثر من 36 شخص في شبكة كهوف…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page