New Delhi: The Taliban on the US drone strike said that Washington will have no right to attack the country after August 31. Suhail Shaheen – spokesperson for the group`s political office said that the Taliban-led government will stop any such attack in Afghanistan after August 31.
This statement comes as the US and foreign forces are set to complete military withdrawal after two decades of war.
The US armed forces on Friday had conducted a drone strike in response to a suicide bombing at Kabul airport that killed 13 US troops and over 150 Afghan civilians.
Pentagon on Saturday had informed that two “high-profile ISIS targets” were killed during an airstrike in Afghanistan on Friday.
US Major Gen Hank Taylor – deputy director of the Joint Staff for Regional Operations said that “I can confirm, as more information has come in, that two high-profile ISIS targets were killed, and one was wounded. And we know of zero civilian casualties.”
According to a media report the ISIS-Khorasan planner of the Kabul blast, who was targeted in the US drone strike, was found in a compound in the Jalalabad area.
All foreign nationals and Afghan citizens with travel authorization from around 100 countries, including the United States, will be allowed to travel outside Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday.