Multiple rockets were fired on Kabul on Monday morning days after an ISIS-K suicide attack on Thursday that struck a huge crowd outside the Kabul airport and left scores of civilians killed and injured.
A civilian vehicle was apparently used as an improvised platform in the rocket attack, leaving no casualties.
On Sunday, the United States carried out a defensive airstrike in Kabul neighborhood, targeting a suspected ISIS-K suicide bomber.
The airstrike killed nine civilians--all members of one family--including six children, with a 2-years-old girl among the dead.
Chair of Afghanistan’s human rights watchdog says that those responsible for the killing of Afghan civilians should be held accountable.
Shaharzad Akbar, chair of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, in a tweet on Monday said the United States “needs to deliver on accountability and reparations.”
“Everyone is killing Afghan civilians and NO ONE is being held accountable,” she tweeted. “[U.S.] needs to reflect deeply on its role in Afghanistan, credible reports of civilian harm caused by the international troops, and deliver on accountability & reparations.”
Kabul residents meanwhile voice concern over the deteriorating situation in the country, saying there would be a new sort of civilian murder.
Khan Mohammad, a Kabul resident, spoke to a journalist working with TKG, said he expected an end to violence after a Taliban takeover, but it seems people have yet to achieve a lasting peace.
Jamal, another resident in the city, said that criminal offenses have also risen across the capital despite Taliban takeover.
Those harmed by criminals don’t know where to go and call for the perpetrators to be held to account, he said.
Taliban blame U.S. forces presence at the Kabul airport to be the main reason behind the deteriorating security situation in the capital.
Security will be ensured after all foreign forces evacuate, the Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi told TKG.
The ISIS-K attack on Kabul has prompted concerns among people.
The United States has been battling the Taliban and their allies in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and the Haqqani network, for 20 years.
Now the Islamic State, said to be the sworn enemy of both the Taliban and the United States, posed threats against security.
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