UK "Ready" To Launch Strikes Against ISIS-K In Afghanistan: Official

ISIS-K had claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts at Kabul Airport in which 169 Afghans and 13 US soldiers were killed on Thursday.

The UK has said that it is "ready" to launch strikes at the ISIS-K terror network in Afghanistan after the Pentagon revealed that there are at least 2,000 fighters of the outfit in the war-torn country. The Islamic State's Afghanistan affiliate, dubbed Islamic State Khorasan or ISIS-K, had claimed responsibility for the deadly twin blasts at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in which 169 Afghans and 13 American soldiers were killed on Thursday. Britain's Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Mike Wigston, told The Daily Telegraph newspaper on Monday that the UK could be involved in strikes against ISIS-K. He was speaking after the UK and the US troops completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan after the Taliban takeover.