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IS denies suffering casualties from US bomb in Afghanistan

US military's largest non-nuclear bomb which hit its mountain hideouts in Afghanistan

Afghanistan, MOAB, US

Afghan commandos are positioned in Pandola village near the site of a U.S. bombing in the Achin district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan

AFP | PTI Cairo
The Islamic State group denied on Friday it had suffered casualties from the US military's largest non-nuclear bomb which hit its mountain hideouts in Afghanistan, in a statement on its propaganda agency Amaq.

"Security source to Amaq agency denies any dead or wounded from yesterday's American strike in Nangarhar using a GBU-43/B," the group's self-styled news agency said on social media accounts.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs" - was unleashed in combat for the first time yesterday, hitting IS positions in eastern Nangarhar province.

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First Published: Apr 14 2017 | 8:28 PM IST

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