The 23-year-old, among the 13 U.S. service members killed in the ISIS-K attack, shared a pic of her holding an infant amid the evacuation.
The attack—which is opposed to the U.S. and the Taliban—came amid the chaos of the U.S. military's rapid evacuation of Americans, allies and Afghan refugees from Afghanistan in the wake of the Taliban's swift takeover of the country. The Taliban takeover came two weeks ahead of PresidentWhen initially reached for comment byon Saturday morning, a spokesperson for the Pentagon said that the military is"not confirming any names" of those killed in the ISIS-K attack at this time.
In this photo, Marine Sergeant Nicole Gee, 23, can be seen holding an infant just days before she was killed by an ISIS-K attack targeting the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on August 26.On Friday, the U.S. military conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan targeting the planners of the ISIS-K attack. "U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan," U.S. Central Command spokesperson Captain Bill Urban said in a statement.Updated 1:19 PM ET, with confirmation from the Pentagon that Nicole Gee was among the service members killed in the Kabul attack.
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