six dead, including four children, in US bombings against ISIS

The attack also left four injured and destroyed two vehicles and part of a house, Afghan television station Ariana News reported, citing witnesses.

“US forces today carried out a defensive drone air strike,” launched from outside Afghanistan, “against a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent IS-K threat to the international airport.” Kabul, said Bill Urban, spokesman for the Pentagon’s central command.

“We are sure we have hit the goal,” he added. “We are checking the possibility of civilian casualties,” he said, adding that “he has no proof at the moment” in this regard.

“Strong secondary explosions of the vehicle showed the presence of a significant amount of explosive material,” he added. “We remain alert to possible future threats,” AFP reported.

US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that a new attack was “highly likely” after Thursday’s attack on Kabul airport claimed by IS-K which killed around 100 people, including 13 soldiers Americans.

In retaliation, the United States then carried out a drone strike in Afghanistan, killing two ISIS operatives and injuring a third, warning that it would not be “the last”.

The event took place three days after a bloody bombing at the airport in the Afghan capital, where Western countries are racing against time to evacuate as many citizens as possible who wish to leave Afghanistan, dominated for two weeks by fundamentalists Taliban.

Before the Pentagon confirmed the attack by the United States, anonymous sources quoted by the press indicated that the target of the attack were suspected fighters from the Afghan branch of Daesh, responsible for the attack at the airport of Kabul last Thursday.

In turn, another news agency reported that the attack was launched against a suicide bomber who was in a vehicle supposed to attack the airport.

This information was published by the Associated Press and collected by Sputnik.

Biden and his wife, Jill, attended a tribute to servicemen killed Thursday when news of the airstrike broke at Dover Army Base in eastern Washington this morning.

Against this backdrop, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan today assured that US diplomats will not stay in Afghanistan after August 31 when the troops withdraw completely.

“Our current plan is not to have a continuous embassy presence from September 1,” Sullivan confirmed in statements to CBS, according to Sputnik news agency.

American diplomats have left the embassy building in Kabul and are working at the airport in the capital to help organize the evacuation of thousands of people from Afghanistan.

They estimate that there are still between 250 and 300 American citizens in Afghanistan.

Sullivan made his statement two days after the Taliban movement called on the United States to maintain its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan even after the end of the military evacuation.

The Taliban are advancing in the establishment of a retrograde and punitive regime in Afghanistan, particularly against women, such as the ban on “female voices” on radio and television stations in Kandahar province, while a former official denounces the murder of a local singer.

In recent days, the Taliban have banned music “because Islam says so,” according to a report on the India Today website, collected by the Ansa news agency.

Meanwhile, today the murder of a popular folk singer was known and also the decision to separate women and men in college courses.

“They will continue to study in separate classes, as required by Sharia law,” Acting Education Minister Abdul Bqi Haqqani told Afghan news channel Tolo News.

Former Afghan Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi has denounced the Taliban killing of folk singer Fawad Andarabi, the British daily The Guardian reported, citing a tweet from the politician.

The “brutal murder”, he reported, took place in Andarab, in the south of Baghlan province.

“We will not bow to their brutality,” wrote former minister Andarabi.

In contrast, hundreds of people continue to crowd the doors of Kabul’s banks today in the hope of withdrawing money from ATMs or their accounts, inaccessible since the Taliban took power in the country. .

Almost all of Panjshir’s internet and telecommunications networks have been shut down by fundamentalists, sources from the northeastern province of the country, which has become the center of resistance against the Taliban, denounced.

Meanwhile, sources from the radical group confirmed that the Taliban’s supreme leader, Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada, had traveled to Kandahar to meet with the movement’s leadership and move forward in forming a new government.

“I can confirm he’s in Kandahar. He’s been there from the start” and “will appear in public soon,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.

Fuentes de la cadena Ariana ya habían adelantado la visita del mullah, una figura profundamente enigmática desde su llegada al poder in 2016, at the homonymous capital of the provincia-santuario de los talibanes, in el sur del país, donde habría permanenceecido por espacio de four days.