{"id":119641,"date":"2017-04-13T14:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119641"},"modified":"2017-04-17T07:19:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T12:19:47","slug":"u-s-bomb-dropped-on-is-afghanistan-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=119641","title":{"rendered":"U.S. drops largest non-nuclear bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-119642\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Bomb-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/5397548325001\/?#sp=show-clips\"> largest non-nuclear bomb<\/a> on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. The Air Force calls it the Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb. Based on the acronym, it has been nicknamed the &#8220;Mother Of All Bombs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stump says the bomb was dropped on a cave complex believed to be used by IS fighters in the Achin district of Nangarhar province, very close to the border with Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military&#8217;s largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan. Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":119642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119641"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119680,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119641\/revisions\/119680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}