WANA (Mar 05) – According to news agencies, U.S. President Donald Trump recently announced that a member of ISIS responsible for the 2021 bombing near Kabul airport, multiple explosions in Iran, and the attack on Crocus Hall in Moscow has been arrested and extradited to the United States.

 

The Kabul airport bombing, which occurred during the sudden withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, resulted in the deaths of approximately 170 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. service members who were securing the area.

 

Kash Patel, head of the FBI, stated that the individual, identified as Mohammad Sharifullah, also known as Jafar, is a senior leader of ISIS-Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

U.S. officials confirmed that he is currently being extradited from Pakistan to the United States and is expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday.

 

It appears that this individual was also responsible for two attacks on Shah Cheragh in Shiraz and the bombing during the fourth-anniversary ceremony of Qassem Soleimani in 2024, which resulted in at least 84 deaths.

 

The first attack on Shah Cheragh occurred in November 2022 at the height of the protests known as “Woman, Life, Freedom,” leaving 13 dead and 40 injured. The second attack took place a year later in August 2023, killing two people. ISIS claimed responsibility for both incidents in official statements.

 

During the Kabul airport bombing, a suicide bomber detonated himself among a crowd of people trying to flee the country.

 

In April 2023, the White House announced that a key ISIS figure involved in planning the Kabul attack had been killed in an operation by the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

 

On Tuesday, in his first speech to Congress since returning to the White House, Donald Trump stated that Pakistan had cooperated in arresting the “terrorist mastermind” behind these attacks, which he described as a “horrific crime.”

 

Taking a jab at former President Joe Biden for what he called a “disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan,” Trump added: “He (the mastermind) is now on his way here to face the sharp blade of American justice.”

 

The U.S. president thanked Pakistan for “helping capture this monster” but did not provide further details about the suspect or the operation that led to his arrest.