Is There a War Zone in Afghanistan?

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E was sitting in an adjacent room, and he heard the sound of his brother coming in. The motor was still running when there was a blast and the blew out. He got to his feet and asked his wife where the children and then went outside and saw,. you know, a dead nephew, and badly wounded in the face and tore so by shrapnel. And he saw another kid who was dead, and lot of fire and smoke; that's when the neighbors came and pulled him out of there.

A US drone strike in Afghanistan was meant to take out an ISIS-K target. Reporting on the ground shows an aid worker and several children were killed. Matthieu Aikins, reporter at the New York Times, explains from Kabul.

Today’s show was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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