{"id":63497,"date":"2021-08-29T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-29T14:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/29\/us-drone-strike-on-isis-k-in-kabul-us-official\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:41:08","slug":"us-drone-strike-on-isis-k-in-kabul-us-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/flashpoints\/2021\/08\/29\/us-drone-strike-on-isis-k-in-kabul-us-official\/","title":{"rendered":"US drone strike takes out ISIS-K suicide vehicle in Kabul: CENTCOM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) \u2014 The U.S. military launched a drone strike against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/08\/27\/isis-k-planner-killed-in-drone-strike-centcom-says\/\" target=\"_blank\">ISIS-K<\/a> in Kabul, based on concerns of an attack against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2021\/08\/13\/taliban-sweep-across-afghanistans-south-take-3-more-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamid Karzai International Airport<\/a>, according to U.S Central Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cU.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport,\u201d Navy Capt. Bill Urban, the Centcom spokesman, said in a statement Sunday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are assessing the possibilities of civilian casualties, though we have no indications at this time. We remain vigilant for potential future threats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier Sunday, the Taliban said that a U.S. airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle Sunday who wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/newsletters\/breaking-news-alert\/2021\/08\/26\/biden-vows-payback-for-deadly-attacks-on-us-troops-but-will-keep-aug-31-afghanistan-withdrawal-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">attack the Kabul international airport <\/a>amid the American military\u2019s evacuation there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The attack comes days after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/28\/here-are-the-names-of-the-13-service-members-who-died-in-afghanistan-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\">13 U.S. service members were killed in a blast at HKIA<\/a> and as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul\u2019s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago. After an Islamic State affiliate\u2019s suicide attack that killed over 180 people, the Taliban increased its security around the airfield as Britain ended its evacuation flights Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. military cargo planes continued their runs into the airport Sunday, ahead of a Tuesday deadline earlier set by President Joe Biden to withdraw all troops from America\u2019s longest war. However, Afghans remaining behind in the country worry about the Taliban reverting to their earlier oppressive rule \u2014 something fueled by the recent shooting death of a folk singer in the country by the insurgents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zabihullah Mujahid said in a message to journalists that the strike targeted the bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. military officials could not be immediately reached for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul\u2019s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained by The Associated Press in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No group immediately claimed the attack, however militants have fired rockets in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul. The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule. The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan\u2019s 34 provinces not under its control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi\u2019s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people,\u201d his son said. \u201cThey shot him in the head on the farm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father\u2019s killer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the AP that the insurgents would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Samiullah_mahdi\/status\/1431647857883459594?s=20\">A video online <\/a>showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation,\u201d he sang. \u201cOur beautiful valley, our great-grandparents\u2019 homeland.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karima Bennoune, the United Nations special rapporteur on cultural rights, wrote on Twitter that she had \u201cgrave concern\u201d over Andarabi\u2019s killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe call on governments to demand the Taliban respect the #humanrights of #artists,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agnes Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International, similarly decried the killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is mounting evidence that the Taliban of 2021 is the same as the intolerant, violent, repressive Taliban of 2001,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201c20 years later. 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