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Us drone strike afghanistan farmers11/29/2023 A second attack targeting an army base in central Kabul killed 22 people. The US drone strike in Afghanistan targeted two planners and facilitators from the Islamic State’s local affiliate who was travelling in a car near the eastern city of Jalalabad, US. ![]() Separate attacks claimed by the Taliban killed scores on Tuesday, including a blast at an election rally for President Ashraf Ghani that left 26 people dead. drone strike blew up a vehicle carrying multiple suicide bombers from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate on Sunday before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at. The United States under the counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan continues to conduct air strikes against the Islamist Taliban insurgents and the Islamic State group fighters. Of those 519 casualties, just over four of every five were caused by the international forces. ![]() considers the Islamic State a much greater danger these days, including in Afghanistan, where the group is at odds with the Taliban and al-Qaida and has been blamed for many deadly attacks.Afghanistan’s defence ministry and a senior US official in Kabul confirmed the drone strike but did not share details of civilian casualties.Īccording to the United Nations, at least 3,812 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first half of 2019 in the war against militant groups, with a big increase in the number of casualties caused by government and foreign forces.Īir strikes by US and government forces killed 363 people and injured 156 others, and of those casualties 150 were children, according to the UN report. With history as a guide, he says al-Qaida leaders are expected to name a successor to al-Zawahiri.Īl-Qaida still poses a threat to the U.S., he adds, even if it is a "vastly diminished terrorist network" than it was two decades ago, or even in 2011 when the U.S. drone warfare around the world, at least 6,825 drone strikes took place in 2019 in Afghanistan. Kirby says al-Zawahiri was "actively engaged in urging his followers to plot and plan attacks" including potentially in the U.S. According to the London-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which is observing U.S. was able to gather detailed intelligence and carry out a long-range strike, at least in this instance. drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a days labor in the fields. ![]() ability to do with the military gone, the embassy closed and intelligence being much more difficult to gather. was pulling out a year ago, American military leaders said they would continue to keep tabs on Afghanistan from "over the horizon." is providing humanitarian assistance, Afghanistan is painfully low on food, medicine and other basics.Īs the U.S. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, who was in Kabul at the time of the Sunday strike, says residents were awoken by the sound of at least one early-morning explosion and later shared images of a multi-story house with the windows blown out.Īsia Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans For Afghanistan Zawahiri presented that kind of a threat and that's why we took him out." Zawahiri's hideout suggests ties between al-Qaida and Taliban We also said that the plan isn't to hit every single al-Qaida terrorist with a missile, it's to make sure that we are defeating those threats to our homeland, to the American people. "We said a year ago that we knew al-Qaida was starting to move back, in small numbers, into Afghanistan," Kirby added. will not let Afghanistan become a safe haven for terrorists. John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House's National Security Council, told Morning Edition that the strike deals a significant blow to al-Qaida's operations, and proves that the U.S. ![]() says it killed al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
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