The would-be assailants were said to be heading for the Afghan capital’s airport, where President Biden had warned of another possible terrorist attack. …
the Islamic State Khorasan, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command said.
Defense officials in a statement Sunday evening acknowledged the possibilities that civilians may have been killed after the strike.
“We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul today,” Capt. Bill Urban, the CentCom spokesman, said. “We are still assessing the results of this strike, which we know disrupted an imminent ISIS-K threat to the airport. We know that there were substantial and powerful subsequent explosions resulting from the destruction of the vehicle, indicating a large amount of explosive material inside that may have caused additional casualties. It is unclear what may have happened, and we are investigating further.”
