{"id":436922,"date":"2021-09-20T08:37:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=436922"},"modified":"2021-09-20T08:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T03:17:28","slug":"us-military-admits-august-drone-strike-in-kabul-killed-10-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-military-admits-august-drone-strike-in-kabul-killed-10-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"US military admits August drone strike in Kabul killed 10 civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has admitted that an American drone strike in Kabul last last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting analysis by inter-agency partners, I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,&#8221; Xinhua news agency quoted Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the US Central Command as saying during a Pentagon press briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with IS-K, or were a direct threat to US forces,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has admitted that an American drone strike in Kabul last last month killed as many as 10 civilians, including seven children. &#8220;Having thoroughly reviewed the findings of the investigation and the supporting analysis by inter-agency partners, I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,&#8221; Xinhua news agency quoted Kenneth McKenzie, commander of the US Central Command as saying during a Pentagon press briefing on Friday. &#8220;We now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with IS-K, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}