The U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism drone strike against a member of the ISIS-K terrorist group in Afghanistan early on Aug. 28 local time, according to U.S. Central Command. In a statement, CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said that the U.S. military forces “conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner.” “Initial indications are that we killed the target,” he said. “We know of no civilian casualties.” The strike involved an unmanned aerial vehicle in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province, he added. ISIS-K is an affiliate of the ISIS terrorist group. It claimed responsibility for bombings that took place on Aug. 26 outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, bragging that a suicide bomber had managed to “penetrate all the security fortifications” put in place by U.S. forces and the Taliban. The Pentagon confirmed on Aug. 27 that a suicide bomber carried out the attack. The attack killed 13 U.S. service …