U.S. officials say there have been about 20 airstrikes against Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan in the past three weeks, as the U.S. expands its fight against the insurgent group beyond Iraq and Syria.
The strikes come in the wake of a decision by the Obama administration to give the Pentagon the authority to conduct airstrikes against IS in Afghanistan. The group’s numbers there continue to grow.
Army Brig. Gen. Wilson A. Shoffner says there are 1,000 to 3,000 Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan trying to establish a base.
Shoffner declines to say how many airstrikes the U.S. conducted in the east, but other U.S. officials say it’s around 20. The officials aren’t authorized to discuss the numbers publicly so spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
you should take a lesson from Putin He has only been in Syria for a few months and He’s almost done.
If you are a member of ISIS or al Qaeda you should understand that you are a target of the United States military and that your life will be ended once they find you. We are not going to get anywhere trying to reason with the terrorists. We can learn from Israel that you can’t buy peace by trying to appease them. Their main desire is to injure or kill people. The best way to deal with these brutal people is to kill them.
The terrorists are pure evil. The sooner they are gone the better the world will be.
amen eye for an eye
You nailed it! Kill them all. Cancer can’t be reasoned with.
Amen!!
YES, THIS TIME IS TIME TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE
GOTTA BE !!
AND TRUMP IS OUR ACE IN THE HOLE TO DO IT
AS HE SAYS HE WILL DO!
GOOD MAN DONALD J TRUMP
NOW HE DOES SOMETHING LITTLE TOO LATE WHEN THEY HAVE BUILT A ARMY THIS STRONG. COULD HAVE BEEN DONE SOONER TO ELIMINATE GROWTH. BUT THEN THAT WOULD REQUIRE TIME AWAY FROM GETTING MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO THE USA FOR US TO FEED, HOUSE AND SUCK OUR TAX DOLLARS AWAY. BAN ALL MUSLIMS HIRE USA AMERICANS WHO WERE HERE FIRST WHY SHOULD WE HONOR WHAT OUR IDIOT PRESIDENT WANTS. HE BRINGS MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO OUR COUNTRY WHO RAPE STEAL AND KILL USA CITIZENS. ALL STATES BAN PASS LAWS AGAINST HIS MOVES. SHOW HIM AMERICAN PEOPLE ARENT GOING TO STAND FOR HIS IDIOTIC CRAP. REMEMBER 911 AND ALL THE LIVES LOST AND MILLIONS GONE. OBAMAS OBAMACARE WASTE OF MILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS MONEY. DISHONORING OUR VETS TIME AND TIME AGAIN. HE SHOULD STEP DOWN FROM OFFICE HE IS THE WORST PRESIDENT EVER AND A DISGRACE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NOT TO MENTION A RACIST PROVED TIME AND TIME AGAIN. WASTING MILLIONS ON VACATIONS ON THE TAXPAYERS RETIREMENT FUNDS.
That is only a small part of what he has done to the American people. We need a Congress that will IMPEACH this evil president.
AND ISIS KNOWS HE DOESN’T MEAN A WORD OF IT.
All i have to say is watch American Sniper this is what we should have been doing all along. You can even watch the show Live to Tell. This us what we are fighting against and the military never should have stopped. I love my Country keep these people out. Time to make a march on Washington and get rid of this non America, Constitutional Right taking ashole out of office.
SO TRUE KAREN AND IRAQ WAS ALL WRONG ALSO!
BUT IN A DIFFERENT WAY
LIES, ABOUT WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION AND POWELL KNEW THE FACTS
BUT SAID WHEN YOU WORK FOR A PRESIDENT – BOSS, (BUSH) YOU DO WHAT HE SAYS TO DO.
EVEN AGAINST WHAT YOU KNOW TO BE WRONG!
HE ANNOUNCED THIS ON NATIONAL TV
I ADMIRED POWELL UP UNTIL THEN.
A LIE IS A LIE! AND LOOK WHAT THAT ALL CAUSED RIGHT UP TO NOW EVEN..
GOD HELP US
There is a difference between a muslim and a militant muslim. Not all of the muslim faith are bad people. It is the militant muslim, the members of the ISS and to me anyone that hates America . These are the targets as far as I am concerned. so to state that we should ban all muslims is being way to broad of a statement . That is being like the militant muslims that want to kill all nonbelievers of the muslim religion. .This country has many different faiths. Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Mormon and a few more, Are they all bad? No. So banning all muslims is kind of stupid to say.
Go watch “Kingdom of Heaven” and then tell me what u think?
Gordon A is full of crap. The muslims have been fulminating chaos fo centuries. Where are the muslim hospitals or charities. They donot exist. Where is the condemnation of the radicals by the so called “good” muslims. How about the cheering by middle east muslims over the 9/11 horror. To ban them from entering the America >what a goe sent!
TO A POINT
YET I DO SEE YOUR POINT TOO USERNAME GORDON
ANOTHER CATCH 22?
To those who believe that we don’t have to worry about the peaceful Muslims. It’s true that most of the world’s population are peace loving people out there trying to make a living but in the case of Muslims they are under the rule of the malignant militant Muslims. There has probably been more of them killed in the name of Allah than any other single group in the world at large.