US drone attacks claim 13 lives in E Afghanistan
At least 13 people have been killed in the latest US assassination drone strikes in eastern Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
Afghan authorities said on Sunday that 13 people were killed in two separate air raids carried out the day before in the eastern provinces of Nangarhar and Kunar.
Local officials claimed that 12 of those killed in the drone strikes belonged to the Afghan Taliban militant group and one was a Pakistani militant.
The Taliban is yet to comment on the report.
The assaults come after another US drone attack targeted two residential buildings in the Lal Pur district of Nangarhar on June 30, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than a dozen others.
An aerial assault in the same province, which lies on the border with Pakistan, reportedly killed at least seven people on June 20.
The United States carries out targeted killings through drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
While Washington claims the targets of the attacks are militants, witnesses maintain that, in most cases, civilians have been the victims of the airstrikes.
Afghanistan faces a security challenge years after the United States and its allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington’s so-called war on terror. The offensive removed the Taliban from power, but many areas in the country are still witnessing violence and instability.
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