Kabul Airstrike
US carries out airstrike in Kabul targeting suspected ISIS-K car bomb: Reports
Washington: The US on Sunday carried out an airstrike which targeted a suspected ISIS-K car bomb which was heading towards the airport in the city, media reports said.
A US defense official was quoted as saying by CNN a significant secondary explosion indicated a substantial amount of explosive material.
A drone carried out the attack. The initial indication is that there were no civilian casualties, the official said.
“US 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," Capt. Bill Urban, CENTCOM spokesperson, was also quoted as saying by CNN.
Meanwhile, a rocket exploded in a residential area in the Afghan capital on Sunday, three days after a deadly suicide bombing killed nearly 200 people at the Kabul airport.
A rocket slammed into a house in the Khawja Bughra area in Kabul's 11th security district, which is west of the airport, reports UNI news agency.
Read: Afghanistan: Blast heard in Kabul city
Dense plumes of smoke could be seen rising into the sky from the explosion. The rocket landed on a house in a crowded locality.
The attack came hours after US President Joe Biden warned that another terrorist attack on Kabul's airport is "highly likely in the next 24-36 hours”.
On Friday, the US killed two "high profile" ISIS-Khorasan targets in a drone attack in Nangarhar province and injured another, in a retaliatory step following the airport suicide attack that killed 13 US service members.
On Thursday, an ISIS-K suicide bomber exploded himself in the midst of a crowd of people seeking to leave Afghanistan, just outside the airport, killing nearly 200 people and wounding dozens of others.
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