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Taliban kill ISIS leader behind deadly Kabul airport bombing, U.S. says

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has killed an ISIS leader suspected of planning the 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul airport that left 13 American service members and over 170 Afghans dead, U.S. officials confirmed Tuesday.

Driving the news: Biden administration officials did not identify the suspect's name, but said he was a leader of the ISIS Afghanistan chapter known as Islamic State-Khorasan, or ISIS-K, and that he was killed in early April.


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