US ‘missile malfunction’ causes municipal casualties after Mattis revisit to Kabul: NATO

PHOTO: AFPPHOTO: AFP

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KABUL: An American airstrike on insurgents in Kabul Wednesday caused “several casualties” after a barb “malfunctioned”, NATO said, overshadowing a high-profile revisit by US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and NATO arch Jens Stoltenberg.

The US strike was launched in support of Afghan confidence army who had confronted militants after they dismissed a bombardment of rockets nearby a capital’s general airfield hours after Mattis arrived in a nation for talks.

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One chairman was killed and 11 others were bleeding in a assault, according to a interior ministry. The Taliban and a Islamic State’s internal Khorasan range associate claimed responsibility.

“Tragically, one of a missiles malfunctioned, causing several casualties,” NATO’s Resolute Support goal pronounced in a statement.

NATO pronounced it “deeply regrets a mistreat to non-combatants” and an review was underneath approach into a conflict and a poor ammunition.

The casualties caused by a US airstrike in a collateral have expel a cover over Mattis’s outing to a nation and could fuel annoy towards American army whose repute is already tarnished.

 

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