The errant U.S. bombing, which killed at least five Aghan troops, is said to be the result of a miscommunication between troops on the ground and in the air
Authorities are investigating an errant U.S. bombing of an Afghan military base in the country’s south that killed at least five Afghan troops, a lawmaker said Thursday.
The U.S. military said Wednesday it responded to incoming fire on Afghan and U.S. forces on the ground and attempted to come to their defence by conducting a precision air strike. In other developments, the Taliban slammed the U.S. State Department’s 2018 human rights report, released Wednesday for singling out the Taliban for attacks against civilians. The report also took note of what it said were extrajudicial killings by Afghan security forces as well as the Kabul government’s rampant corruption.“The U.S. is an occupier country directly involved in crimes against humanity,” said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
The incumbent provincial police chief, Gen. Akram Sammeh, said his replacement, Abdul Raqib Mubarez, landed at the airport in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday but the police were blocking him from heading into the city to take up his post.
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