The Pentagon pledged a transparent investigation of a drone strike in Kabul Sunday aimed at foiling an Islamic State attack. Ten civilians were killed, relatives of the dead said.
on Sunday that it said was aimed at foiling an attack by Islamic State militants on the Afghan capital’s airport.
A missile that day killed 10 civilians—all relatives of a former interpreter who had been seeking a U.S. special immigrant visa because he fearedEmal Ahmady, who said he worked as a translator for an American company from 2011 to 2014, said in a telephone interview that five children in his extended family were killed, along with five adults. He wasn’t home at the time, he said.
A neighbor reached by telephone said that Mr. Ahmady’s brother had just pulled his car into the yard of the family home when children crowded around the vehicle to greet him. Some adults were also standing nearby, Mr. Ahmady said. Then there was a deafening explosion, the neighbor said. “All children are in love with riding in a car or being around them,” Mr. Ahmady said. Then he began to cry before saying “I no longer care” about the visa and hanging up the phone.
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