‘MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS’ KILLED 90 ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS

The number of Islamic State fighters killed by a massive US bomb in eastern Afghanistan has nearly tripled to at least 90, Afghan officials said Saturday.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb -- dubbed the “Mother Of All Bombs” -- was unleashed in combat for the first time, hitting IS positions in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday.

The bomb smashed their mountain hideouts, a tunneland-cave complex that had been mined against conventional ground attacks, engulfing the remote area in towering flames.

“At least 92 Daesh (IS) fighters were killed in the bombing,” Achin district governor Esmail Shinwari told AFP on Saturday. Nangarhar provincial spokesperson Attaullah Khogyani gave a toll of 90.

Security experts say IS had built their redoubts close to civilian homes, but the government said thousands of local families had already fled the area in recent months of fighting.

FORMER AFGHAN PREZ HAMID KARZAI CALLS DECISION ‘TREASON’

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the US military to drop the MOAB.

Karzai’s strong words could signal a broader political backlash that may endanger the US military mission in Afghanistan.

“How could you permit Americans to bomb your country with a device equal to an atom bomb?” Karzai said at a public event in Kabul, questioning President Ashraf Ghani’s decision.

“If the government has permitted them to do this, that was wrong and it has committed a national treason.”