Photo / Carolyn Kaster, APAt around the same time as the drone strike, Afghan police said a rocket hit a neighbourhood near the airport, killing a child. The Taliban described the drone strike and the rocket attack as separate incidents, but AP reporters in the Afghan capital heard only one large blast. U.S. officials say a drone strike hit a vehicle carrying Islamic State suicide bombers heading for the Kabul airport. The US carried out a drone strike elsewhere in the country on Saturday that it said killed two Isis members. Afghan people at a house after US drone strike in Kabul.

Source: New Zealand Herald August 29, 2021 19:07 UTC