U.S. targets Chinese Uighur militants as well as Taliban fighters in Afghanistan - Counter-IED Report

U.S. targets Chinese Uighur militants as well as Taliban fighters in Afghanistan

Posted onFebruary 8, 2018June 25, 2024AuthorCIEDR

The U.S. military says it carried out a series of punishing bombings last weekend of Taliban militant camps that also support a separatist Chinese terror group.

A bombing raid Sunday on a region bordering China and Tajikistan set a record for the number of precision-guided munitions launched at one time from a B-52 bomber, according to Air Force Maj. Gen. James Hecker, who spoke to reporters at the Pentagon in a video teleconference from Kabul on Wednesday. The camps in remote Badakhshan Province supported Taliban operations within Afghanistan and by the East Turkestan Islamic Movement — set up by members of China’s minority Uighur community — on the border region with China and Tajikistan, the military said.