[ToloNews] A U.S. Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying "multiple jacket wallahs" from Afghanistan’s Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said.
There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.
Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
front man Zabihullah Mujahid earlier said in a message to journalists that the U.S. strike targeted a suicide bomber as he drove a vehicle loaded with explosives. Mujahid offered few other details.
Two American military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss military operations, called the airstrike successful. They said the strike caused "significant secondary explosions" indicating the presence of a substantial amount of kaboom in the vehicle.
The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide kaboom. On Saturday, a strike in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province killed an Islamic State member believed to be involved in planning attacks against the United States in Kabul. The strike killed one person, front man Navy Capt. William Urban said.
The rocket attack meanwhile struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighborhood, said Rashid, the Kabul police chief who goes by one name. Video obtained by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in the aftermath of the attack showed smoke rising from building at the site around a kilometer (half a mile) from the airport. No group immediately claimed the attack, however bully boyz have fired rockets in the past.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, a triangular dorsal fin appeared in the water. Then another...
the family of a folk singer north of Kabul say the Taliban killed him. The shooting of Fawad Andarabi came in the Andarabi Valley for which he was named, an area of Baghlan province some 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of Kabul. The valley had seen upheaval since the Taliban takeover, with some districts in the area coming under the control of militia fighters opposed to the Taliban rule. The Taliban say they have since retaken those areas, though neighboring Panjshir in the Hindu Kush mountains remains the only one of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces not under its control.
The Taliban previously came out to Andarabi’s home and searched it, even drinking tea with the musician, his son Jawad Andarabi told the AP. But something changed Friday.
"He was innocent, a singer who only was entertaining people," his son said. "They shot him in the head on the farm."
His son said he wanted justice and that a local Taliban council promised to punish his father’s killer.
Mujahid, the Taliban front man, told the AP that the hard boyz would investigate the incident, but had no other details on the killing.
Andarabi played the ghichak, a bowed lute, and sang traditional songs about his birthplace, his people and Afghanistan as a whole. A video online showed him at one performance, sitting on a rug with the mountains of home surrounding him as he sang.
"There is no country in the world like my homeland, a proud nation," he sang. "Our beautiful valley, our great-grandparents’ homeland."
Meanwhile on Sunday, private banks across Afghanistan resumed their operations. However,
facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable...
they limited withdrawals to no more than the equivalent of $200 a day. While some complained of still being unable to access their money, babus government employees say they haven’t been paid over the last four months. The Afghani traded around 90.5 to $1, continuing its depreciation as billions of dollars in the country’s reserves remain frozen overseas. 
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