U.S. fallout over Kabul drone strike grows with plans for multiple probes


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  • Friday, 24 Sep 2021

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers from the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division, walk together after returning home from deployment in Afghanistan, at Fort Drum, New York, U.S., September 6, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Democrat said on Thursday that multiple congressional committees will investigate a drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians last month, to determine what went wrong and answer questions about future counterterrorism strategy.

"This is an issue that several committees are going to look at, and we've already started to do that," Representative Adam Schiff, chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, told reporters.

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