to leave the area around the kabul airport citing a specific and credible threat. now, this alert comes after thursday s deadly bombing. and two days before u.s. troops are supposed to be out of afghanistan. the u.s. has hit back at isis-linked militants it says are behind the blast. the pentagon reports two high-profile isis-k militants were killed, one wounded in a u.s. air strike near jalalabad. the aftermath, seen in this exclusive video, shows the damage around the building and inside it. u.s. president joe biden is vowing the strike against isis-k won t be the last. here s how pentagon spokesperson described the ongoing threat. nobody s writing this off and saying, well, we got them so we don t have to worry about isis-k anymore. not the case. as i said earlier, the the threat stream is still active, still dynamic. we re still laser focused on that and force protection. and we aren t thinking, for a minute, that what happened yesterday gets us in the clear.
deadline. the pentagon did carry out a drone strike on friday just less than 48 hours after that on saturday, less than 48 hours after that terrorist attack killed scores of afghans and 13 u.s. service members and did kill two isis members that the pentagon said were valuable targets. but pentagon press secretary john kirby said yesterday that the u.s. is not going to get complacent here, all those they were high level planners who had the possibility of planning further attacks against u.s. forces, the threat continues and is very real. take a listen. make no mistake. nobody s writing this off and saying, well, we got them, so we don t have to worry about isis-k anymore. not the case. as i said earlier, the threat stream is still active, still dynamic. we are still laser focused on that and force protection and we aren t thinking for a minute that what happened yesterday gets news the clear.
breaking news tonight out of afghanistan, the u.s. embassy in kabul has just issued a security alert for the kabul airport. this is due, in their words, to a specific credible threat at multiple areas, and this new warning comes just hours after president biden said the georgia mission faces a, quote, high likelihood of a terror attack in the next 24 to 36 hours. they re real, dynamic, and we are monitoring them literally in real time. we re taking all the means necessary to make sure we re focused on that threat stream and doing what we can for force protection. let me bring in military analyst and retired air force ced rirk layton.
a prevention strategy. trying to prevent any potential attacks coming against the troops on the in afghanistan as we lead up to that drawdown on august 31st. remember, those two isis targets killed, the pentagon identified them as planners and facilitators. saying that one, quote, they believed was associated with potential future attacks at the airport. take a listen to pentagon spokesperson john kirby kind of assess the threat as it still stands. make no mistake, nobody s writing this off and saying we got them. we don t have to worry about isis-k anymore. not the case. as i said earlier, the threat stream is still active. still dynamic. we re still laser focussed on that and forced protection. we re thinking for a minute that what happened yesterday gets us in the clear. not a minute. but do we believe that we hit valid targets?
monitoring these real threats in realtime. obviously the focus is around the airport. one of the things they had already been doing in the lead up to the attack yesterday, as we knew this threat stream was coming in was to secure the perimeter, make it much stronger. that obviously is continuing. but, anderson, one of the major things they are doing is coordinating with the pal dan. the taliban is obviously the most powerful force there on the ground outside the airport. the u.s. has asked the taliban to extend the perimeter farther away from the airport. they have asked them to shut down some of the roads to prevent things like they re called ieds, so vehicle born ieds from getting closer to the airport to prevent those suicide bombers from getting closer to the airport. we know there has been some level of information sharing between the u.s. and the taliban about potential threats. of course, this level of coordination is absolutely extraordinary, relying on an enemy for this kind