Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said that a US drone strike targeting a suspected suicide bomber in Kabul yesterday, resulted in civilian casualties, and condemned the United States for failing to inform the Taliban before ordering the strike.
He further said that China’s state television CGTN today showed that seven people were killed in the drone attack, describing the US action on foreign soil as unlawful. In a written response to CGTN Mujahid, “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,”
An official report stated that the suicide car bomber had been preparing to attack the airport in Kabul. However, the US troops were in the final stages of a withdrawal from Afghanistan, on behalf of ISIS-K, a local affiliate of the Islamic State that is an enemy of both the West and the Taliban. US Central Command further informed the media that it was investigating reports of civilian casualties from Sunday’s drone strike.
The official report further said that “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,”
However, the Taliban spokesperson has already issued a similar condemnation of a US drone strike yesterday, that killed two Islamic State militants in the eastern province of Nangarhar. He further added that two women and a child were wounded in that attack.
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