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A bomb hidden in a water truck has killed at least 80 people and injured more than 360 others in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, reports say. At least seven American citizens are known to have been injured in the blast. Both the Taliban and ISIS operate in Afghanistan, but neither has of yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bombing, Afghanistan’s most deadly terror attack since July, took place between the embassies of Germany and Turkey in a heavily patrolled area of the capital.
Top Trump administration officials reportedly recommended in early May that the United States send between 3,000 and 5,000 more troops to Afghanistan to supplement the 8,400 who are already there. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on Oct. 7, 2001; by one count, 2,396 American service members have been killed in ensuing operations.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who has been described as the “driving force” behind the the recommendation to increase troop levels, once wrote a book that condemned the military leaders whose conduct created the U.S.’s tragic quagmire in Vietnam.
