Taliban Eliminates ISIS Cell Leader Responsible for Kabul Airport Attack.

The Taliban have reportedly killed the leader of the ISIS cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians. U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of the attack had died in a Taliban operation in Afghanistan. The attack raised ISIS-K’s international profile, positioning it as a major threat to the Taliban’s ability to govern the country and, according to American officials, as the most imminent terrorist risk to the United States coming out of Afghanistan.