No military personnel involved in a drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children, in Kabul of Afghanistan in August will face punishment, the Pentagon said Monday.

An internal Pentagon review concluded last month that the August 29 bombing in the Afghan capital did not violate the laws of war and was not caused by misconduct or criminal negligence, the New York Times and several U.S. news outlets reported, citing Defense Department Chief Spokesman John F. Kirby.

"So I do not anticipate there being issues of personal accountability to be had with respect to the August 29 airstrike," Kirby said.

The Biden administration acknowledged in September that the drone strike killed civilians and called it a "tragic mistake."

The military initially defended the bombing as a "righteous strike" targeting an ISIS-affiliated group, which claimed responsibility over suicide bombing attacks near the Kabul airport during the U.S. troops evacuation operation. The attacks killed more than 150 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin apologized for the drone strike and promised a "thorough review" of the incident. He later left the decision to two senior commanders, and approved their recommendation not to punish anyone, the New York Times said.

On November 3, U.S. Air Force Inspector General Sami Said said the drone strike was an "honest mistake" caused by a series of execution errors, including communication breakdowns, but "not criminal conduct, random conduct, negligence."

Zemari Ahmadi, who worked for U.S.-based aid agency Nutrition and Education International (NEI), was one of the victims. The 43-year-old was applying for a U.S. visa to get his family out of Afghanistan when his home was bombed, killing him and nine family members.

NEI's founder and president, Steven Kwon, denounced Pentagon's non-punishment decision as "shocking."

"How can our military wrongly take the lives of 10 precious Afghan people and hold no one accountable in any way?" Kwon asked.

In responding to a query on the issue, China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said the atrocities committed by the U.S. military in killing civilians in Afghanistan are "unacceptable" and the U.S.'s use of various reasons to get away with punishment for these culprits is even more "intolerable."

"Justice may be late but never absent. The era when the United States used so-called democracy and human rights as an excuse to act arbitrarily in the world is over. The day of trial on the U.S. military's crime of killing innocent civilians in other countries will come," said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin.