TAPPER: Welcome back to THE LEAD. In our world lead: moments ago, the Pentagon announced that U.S. forces have killed the leader of the ISIS affiliate, or emir, in Afghanistan. Let's bring in CNN Pentagon reporter Ryan Browne. Ryan, we're just learning more about this. It's kind of a breaking story, this ISIS emir who has been killed. His name was Abu Sayed. What do we know about him, what do we know about how he was killed?</s>RYAN BROWNE, CNN PENTAGON REPORTER: Well, Jake, we're learning some new additional details from U.S. military forces in Afghanistan about the strike that killed Abut Sayed, ISIS's leader there in Afghanistan. Now, it was a drone strike conducted in KUnr President, and that's in the eastern most part of the country, kind of that in that remote area that borders Pakistan. And this is kind of there and the neighboring Nangarhar province is kind of where ISIS K, the local affiliate of ISIS, is kind of established itself and conducted a series of terrorist attacks and insurgents against the Afghan government. Now, the U.S. has undertaken an aggressive counterterrorism offensive since March against this terror group, along with Afghan forces, and this is actually the third ISIS they've killed in the last year who was only recently kind of assumed his position in April after a U.S.- Afghan special forces raid killed his predecessor. So, the U.S. has enjoyed some success targeting ISIS's leader in Afghanistan. Now, again, this is all coming as the U.S. is weighing its position in the region, making decisions on whether to send more troops, potentially kind of coming up with a new strategy for neighboring areas like Pakistan. Secretary Mattis telling reporters today that this was a victory against ISIS in Afghanistan, but that the overall Afghanistan is still to come.</s>TAPPER: All right. Ryan Browne at the Pentagon for us, thank you so much. In critical condition, can Senate Republicans keep their new version of the health care alive, long enough to actually debate it? Stay with us.
Pentagon: U.S. Kills ISIS Leader in Afghanistan.