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  2. Azizabad airstrike - Wikipedia

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    The Pentagon described the attack as "a legitimate strike against the Taliban" and questioned the casualty estimates given by the government of Afghanistan and reported by the media. [8] The US military originally denied that any civilian casualties had occurred, but later acknowledged that some civilians might have been killed and announced ...

  3. August 2021 Kabul drone strike - Wikipedia

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    On 29 August 2021, an unmanned drone attack by the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, including 7 children.The U.S. initially said that the vehicle targeted in the strike had visited an Islamic State safe house and that there had been several secondary explosions, implying there had been explosives at the scene.

  4. 2021 Kabul airport attack - Wikipedia

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    A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [ 3 ] [ 14 ] [ 4 ] the ...

  5. Fall of Kabul (2021) - Wikipedia

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    Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...

  6. List of drone strikes in Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    8 January 2020: More than 60 civilians were killed or wounded in a US drone attack targeting Mullah Nangyalay, a top Taliban splinter-group commander in Herat Province. [46] [47] 9 January 2020: Two civilians were killed in a US air or drone strike in Kapisa Province during Operation Freedom's Sentinel. [48]

  7. McMaster on Afghanistan carnage: 'What we saw today is just ...

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    Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster called on President Biden to “reverse course” in the aftermath of Thursday’s bombings in Kabul, urging him to scrap his deadline for ...

  8. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia

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    [81] [82] On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended ISAF combat operations in Afghanistan and officially transferred full security responsibility to the Afghan government. Unable to eliminate the Taliban through military means, coalition forces (and separately, the Afghan government led by Ashraf Ghani ) turned to diplomacy to end the conflict ...

  9. 2017 Nangarhar airstrike - Wikipedia

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    On 13 April 2017, the United States conducted an airstrike in Achin District, [3] located in the Nangarhar Province of eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. [4] The airstrike was carried out using the largest non- nuclear bomb in the United States' arsenal, the GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB), with the goal of ...