Drone attack in Kabul killed civilians, confesses America

The US military on Friday admitted that the drone strike it had carried out in Kabul on August 29 was a “tragic mistake”, and all 10 persons killed were civilians – including seven children – and not one of them had anything to do with the terror group Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) as had been claimed earlier.

The admission was a glaring reversal of the Pentagon’s earlier description of the drone attack, which was touted as a successful operation that presaged the “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism capability that US President Joe Biden said America will have in Afghanistan after the troop pull-out.