The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military has risen to 94. Attaullah Khogiani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said today the number of dead from the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was up from the 36 reported a day earlier. <br/><br/>The strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs, was carried out on Thursday against an ISIS tunnel complex carved into the mountains that Afghan forces had tried to assault repeatedly in recent weeks in fierce fighting in Nangarhar province. '<br/><br/>Current President Ashraf Ghani's office on Friday said, there is close co-ordination between the U.S. military and the Afghan government on the operation, and they are careful to prevent any civilian casualties.'<br/><br/>The U.S. has over 9,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counter terrorism operations

The number of militants killed in an attack by the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military has risen to 94. Attaullah Khogiani, spokesman for the provincial governor in Nangarhar, said today the number of dead from the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) was up from the 36 reported a day earlier. <br/><br/>The strike using the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb (MOAB), nicknamed the Mother of All Bombs, was carried out on Thursday against an ISIS tunnel complex carved into the mountains that Afghan forces had tried to assault repeatedly in recent weeks in fierce fighting in Nangarhar province. '<br/><br/>Current President Ashraf Ghani's office on Friday said, there is close co-ordination between the U.S. military and the Afghan government on the operation, and they are careful to prevent any civilian casualties.'<br/><br/>The U.S. has over 9,000 US troops in Afghanistan, training local forces and conducting counter terrorism operations