A Taliban spokesman mentioned a US drone strike concentrating on a suspected suicide bomber in Kabul on Sunday resulted in civilian casualties, and condemned the United States for failing to tell the Taliban earlier than ordering the strike.
Spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid informed China’s state tv CGTN on Monday that seven folks have been killed within the drone assault, describing the US motion on overseas soil as illegal.
“If there was any potential threat in Afghanistan, it should have been reported to us, not an arbitrary attack that has resulted in civilian casualties,” Mujahid mentioned in a written response to CGTN.
Pentagon officers mentioned the suicide automobile bomber had been making ready to assault the airport in Kabul, the place US troops have been within the last phases of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, on behalf of ISIS-Okay, an area affiliate of Islamic State that’s an enemy of each the West and the Taliban.
US Central Command mentioned it was investigating reviews of civilian casualties from Sunday’s drone strike.
“We know that there were substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle, indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties,” it mentioned.
Mujahid had issued an identical condemnation of a US drone strike on Saturday that killed two Islamic State militants within the jap province of Nangarhar. He mentioned two ladies and a toddler have been wounded in that assault.
