U.S. drone strikes an ISIS-K car packed with explosives in Kabul
U.S. Marines deliver help at an Evacuation Manage Checkpoint (ECC) in the course of an evacuation at Hamid Karzai Intercontinental Airport, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021.
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WASHINGTON – The United States carried out a armed forces strike on Sunday in opposition to an ISIS-K target in Kabul, a enhancement that will come in the ultimate times of an immense humanitarian evacuation mission.
“U.S. military services forces carried out a self-protection unmanned in excess of-the-horizon airstrike these days on a motor vehicle in Kabul, removing an imminent ISIS-K menace to Hamad Karzai Intercontinental airport,” U.S. Central Command spokesman Navy Capt. Monthly bill Urban wrote in a assertion.
“We are self-confident we effectively hit the target. Important secondary explosions from the car indicated the presence of a sizeable amount of money of explosive materials,” he extra.
There had been no known civilian casualties subsequent the strike.
The latest strike follows a Friday drone strike that killed two high-profile ISIS-K members believed to be involved in arranging assaults versus U.S. forces in Kabul. Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor claimed that there were being no regarded civilian casualties adhering to the strike.
Friday’s strike came significantly less than two days after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive in the vicinity of the gates of Kabul’s airport, resulting in the deaths of 13 American service users.
The White Dwelling claimed Sunday that the president and very first woman will satisfy with the family members of the fallen and notice a dignified transfer
