The drone strike was the correct response and the US military was as careful as they could be until an unexpected turn of fate had a family return home in their car. It was not the fault of the USA military. Those innocent lives are mourned by the military and this country. It was not an attack conducted in error.
How many children were lost in the airport bombing because I believe it was the people that were the target and not the military by the bombers. The suicide vest was deployed when it was about to be found out by the approaching soldier. The only reason the USA military lost lives that day is that the soldiers were mingling with the people.
We need to find the bomb maker if there is time to do so.
By Laura Smith-Spark, Saskya Vandoorne, Oren Liebermann, Nick Paton Walsh and Sandi Sidhu
Nine members of one family (click here) -- including six children -- were killed in a US drone strike targeting a vehicle in a residential neighborhood of Kabul, a relative of the dead told a local journalist working with CNN.
The US carried out a defensive airstrike in Kabul, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber who posed an "imminent" threat to the airport, US Central Command said Sunday.
The youngest killed was a 2-year-old girl, according to a brother of the one of those killed.
They were "an ordinary family," he said. "We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home -- where my brothers lived with their families."
The youngest killed was a 2-year-old girl, according to a brother of the one of those killed.
They were "an ordinary family," he said. "We are not ISIS or Daesh and this was a family home -- where my brothers lived with their families."
Neighbors and witnesses at the scene of the drone strike in Kabul told CNN that several people were killed, including children.
"All the neighbors tried to help and brought water to put out the fire and I saw that there were five or six people dead," a neighbor told CNN. "The father of the family and another young boy and there were two children. They were dead. They were in pieces. There were [also] two wounded."...