US drops 'mother of all bombs' on Afghanistan

The United States has dropped the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast - otherwise known as 'the mother of all bombs' - onto a cave complex in eastern Afghanistan.

Weighing almost 10,000 kilos and at a cost of some 15 million euros, it is the "largest non-nuclear bomb Washington has ever used in combat":

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer outlined the US' strategy concerning the operation.

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