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Current affair: coalition airstrike mistarget killing 18 US supported fighters

file photo: Smoke rises following US airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS) militants at Mosul Dam

file photo: Smoke rises following US airstrikes targeting Islamic State (IS) militants at Mosul Dam Source: AAP

An air strike on Tuesday by the coalition fighting ISIS south of Tabqa, Syria, killed 18 U.S. supported fighters, U.S. Central Command announced. Meanwhile, the United States has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat. The military says it dropped bomb in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan on a series of tunnels and caves used by the group calling itself Islamic State. Ivan and Selina report.



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