The U.S. Department of Defense said the airstrikes in retaliation for the bombings at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan killed two high-ranking members of the Afghan branch of the Islamic militant group ISIS.
"There were no civilian casualties," Hank Taylor, chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a Pentagon briefing.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the target was hit with a single strike and that the target was IS Khorasan's planners and collaborators.
The U.S. believes that the possibility of further terrorism is not small until the deadline for withdrawing troops on the 31st.