Mohammad Sharifullah, accused of involvement in the deadly Afghanistan attack, was taken into custody over the weekend.

The United States has charged Mohammad Sharifullah, alias “Jafar,” a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), with providing and conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization resulting in death.

In a speech to Congress, President Donald Trump announced the apprehension of the person he said was the “top terrorist” responsible for the attack that killed 13 U.S. service members in August 2021.

President Donald Trump said the planner of a 2021 attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 American soldiers has been captured and is on the way to the US to face justice.

The ISIS-K terrorist Pakistani officials handed over to the U.S. in connection to the Abbey Gate bombing is tied to multiple other terrorist attacks.