Via NY Times:
In a clear sign of concern over the Taliban’s momentum in northeast Afghanistan, the American military conducted two airstrikes of Taliban positions in a remote corner of the country on Friday afternoon as Taliban fighters, driving captured Rangers and Humvees, quickly took over a pair of district centers.
Ordinarily, a Taliban offensive in isolated Badakhshan Province might cause few reverberations in the capital, Kabul, and would most likely not set off an American military response.