reporting on this story seems very fleshed out, yet the NYTimes still felt this caveat emptor was necessary

Journalists on the scene for The New York Times were unable to independently verify the family’s account.

just pointing that out

three versions recounted in this excerpt from The Guardian's most recent article

The Sunday drone strike on the car, parked outside their home, killed 10 members of one family including six children, relatives told the BBC, adding that some of the dead had worked for international organisations and held visas for entry to the US.

US officials said the explosives in the car had caused secondary blasts. “We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul,” said Capt Bill Urban, a US Central Command spokesman. “We would be deeply saddened by any potential loss of innocent life.”

The Washington Post said the dead were from a single extended family who had been getting out of a car when the strike hit a vehicle nearby. Relatives told the paper eight children or young adults were among those killed, all aged between two and 12.

A Taliban spokesman told Agence-France Presse the group expected IS’s attacks to end once foreign forces leave. “We hope that those Afghans who are influenced by IS will give up their operations on seeing the formation of an Islamic government in the absence of foreigners,” Zabihullah Mujahid said.

“If they create a situation for war and continue with their operations, the Islamic government … will deal with them.”

An unidentified Taliban source told Al Jazeera the group would take “full control” of Kabul airport immediately after the US withdrawal ends on Tuesday.