The U.S. Department of Defense released video Friday showing the deployment of a 22,000-pound bomb known as the "mother of all bombs" against a complex of ISIS-controlled caves in eastern Afghanistan.

KABUL -- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said his decision to use one of the U.S. military's largest nonnuclear bombs in an attack that reportedly killed 36 Islamic State (IS) militants was done ...

A Pentagon spokesman said 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.

A still image taken from a video released by the U.S. Department of Defense, April 14, 2017, shows the moment a MOAB, or "mother of all bombs", struck the Achin district of the eastern province of ...

Targeting an ISIS cave complex in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, the U.S. military dropped a 22,000-pound bomb nicknamed "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat ...

The US commander in Afghanistan who ordered use of the "mother of all bombs" to attack an ISIS stronghold near the Pakistani border didn't need and didn't request President Donald Trump's approval, ...

The MOAB was used in combat for the first time in April 2017 against ISIS cave positions in Afghanistan. The video examines how the GBU-43B was designed, how it was delivered, and why its airburst ...

A massive GBU-43 bomb, also known as the "mother of all bombs," was dropped in eastern Afghanistan on what the US military ...

The U.S. Department of Defense released this video of the Massive Ordinance Air Blast (MOAB) being deployed in Afghanistan. The U.S. Department of Defense released video Friday showing the deployment ...