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Us drone strike afghanistan farmers11/20/2023 16 January 2015: Three killed at Nazyan District, Nangarhar Province.11 January 2015: Eight killed and three injured at Chikanawr area, Lal Pura District, Nangarhar Province.8 January 2015: Six reported killed and three injured in a US air strike at Chikanawr area, Lal Pura District, Nangarhar Province.7 January 2015: Three reported killed in the eastern part of Logar Province.3 January 2015: Twenty-five were killed in two separate drone strikes, one at Gayan District Paktika province killing eighteen and the other at Spera District Khost Province killing seven.1 January 2015: One unknown killed in a US drone strike Spera District Khost Province.Since 1 June 2016, the AAF has conducted at least 41 strike capable operations. Besides the US government, the Afghan Air Force (AAF) also carried out air strikes in Afghanistan. īy 2021, there had been a total of at least 13,074 airstrikes conducted by the US government, killing at least 4,138 people, including 310 civilians and 73 children. In 2016, Obama ordered the CIA to publish civilian drone strike deaths outside of active warzones, an order which was revoked by Trump in 2019. During the presidency of Donald Trump, it was estimated that drone strikes had multiplied at a pace of four to five times compared with previous presidency of Barack Obama. These strikes began during the administration of the United States President George W. Since January 2001, multiple drone strikes have been conducted by the United States government in Afghanistan. considers the Islamic State a much greater danger these days, including in Afghanistan, where the group is at odds with the Taliban and al-Qaida and has been blamed for many deadly attacks.CIA and United States Central Command drone operationsĬhildren killed: 73–191, Injured: 661–1,772 With history as a guide, he says al-Qaida leaders are expected to name a successor to al-Zawahiri.Īl-Qaida still poses a threat to the U.S., he adds, even if it is a "vastly diminished terrorist network" than it was two decades ago, or even in 2011 when the U.S. Kirby says al-Zawahiri was "actively engaged in urging his followers to plot and plan attacks" including potentially in the U.S. was able to gather detailed intelligence and carry out a long-range strike, at least in this instance. ability to do with the military gone, the embassy closed and intelligence being much more difficult to gather. ![]() was pulling out a year ago, American military leaders said they would continue to keep tabs on Afghanistan from "over the horizon." ![]() ![]() is providing humanitarian assistance, Afghanistan is painfully low on food, medicine and other basics.Īs the U.S. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, who was in Kabul at the time of the Sunday strike, says residents were awoken by the sound of at least one early-morning explosion and later shared images of a multi-story house with the windows blown out.Īsia Read What The Taliban Told NPR About Their Plans For Afghanistan Zawahiri presented that kind of a threat and that's why we took him out." Zawahiri's hideout suggests ties between al-Qaida and Taliban We also said that the plan isn't to hit every single al-Qaida terrorist with a missile, it's to make sure that we are defeating those threats to our homeland, to the American people. "We said a year ago that we knew al-Qaida was starting to move back, in small numbers, into Afghanistan," Kirby added. will not let Afghanistan become a safe haven for terrorists. John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House's National Security Council, told Morning Edition that the strike deals a significant blow to al-Qaida's operations, and proves that the U.S. says it killed al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Kabul on Sunday. 2, Ayman al-Zawahiri, for an interview that was published in November 2001, shortly after the 9/11 attacks.
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