Following recent investigative reports by the New York Times and Washington Post, US authorities admitted on Friday that one of its last drone strikes in Afghanistan, days before its complete military pullout, killed 10 civilians. Calling it a ‘tragic mistake’, the US Central Command announced that investigations revealed that its drone strike on 29 August 2021 had killed aid worker Zamairi Akmadhi, seven children and two other civilians. According to the BBC, all of those killed were members of the same family. The youngest child killed was just two-years-old. The Pentagon had in earlier weeks said that the drone strike on 29 August had targeted an ISIS-K suicide bomber who was believed to be involved in planning attacks against US military forces at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. The 29 August drone strike came three days after an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 US troops and dozens of Afghan civilians who had gathered at the airport in an attempt to flee the country that had days earlier fallen to the Taliban. ISIS-K, an offshoot of ISIS founded in 2015 by former members of Pakistani Taliban, had claimed responsibility for the…
US Admits Afghanistan Drone Strike Killed Seven Children, Other Civilians
September 18, 2021
