On Sunday, a US drone strike blew up a vehicle carrying 'multiple suicide bombers' from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate before they could attack the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul airport.
Several rockets were fired at Kabul's airport Monday, witnesses and security sources said, less than 48 hours before the US is due to complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
A U.S. drone strike Sunday struck a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, American officials said.
KABUL BLAST: Earlier on Saturday, United States president Joe Biden had warned that a new terror attack was likely at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan in less than two days, as he put the timeframe for the predicted attack to "the next 24 to 36 hours".
Nearly 200 people, including 13 US soldiers, were killed and hundreds others wounded in the suicide blast that hit an eastern airport gate, when huge crowds were waiting for evacuation flights.
Although most of its allies had finished their evacuation flights, the U.S. planned to keep its round-the-clock flights going until the deadline, saying 113,500 people had been evacuated since Aug. 14, the day before the Taliban claimed Kabul.
The UNHCR asked neighbouring countries to keep their borders open to Afghan refugees.
U.S. and its allies wound down a chaotic airlift that will end their troops’ two decades in Afghanistan.
The warning early Sunday morning says US citizens should avoid traveling to the airport and avoid all airport gates at this time.
The UK govt said late Saturday that about 1,000 troops who ran an airlift of British nationals and Afghan civilians had departed from Kabul airport, hours after the final evacuation flight for civilians.
At present, a dozen names are being considered to be appointed as new government officials, said Taliban member.
New layers of checkpoints sprang up on roads leading to the airport, some manned by uniformed Taliban fighters with Humvees and night-vision goggles captured from Afghan security forces. Areas, where large crowds of people have gathered over the past two weeks in hopes of fleeing the country following the Taliban takeover, were largely empty.
Britain’s defense ministry said the final flight for Afghan citizens had left Kabul and further flights over the weekend will bring home British troops and diplomats, though they may also carry a few remaining U.K. or Afghan civilians.
Kabul Airport which recently had become a danger zone, on Saturday witnessing attacks again. While the US administration launched an airstrike against IS-K, media reports suggest that attacks and firing near Kabul Airport will continue.
Thousands of Afghans are still gathering outside the airport in Kabul hoping to leave the country, even after a devastating suicide attack on Thursday killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members and amid warnings of more attacks.
2 suicide bomb attacks rocked Kabul airport in Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 103 people, including 13 US service members, and injuring 158 others.
On Thursday, a suicide bomber and multiple ISIS-K gunmen killed 13 US service members and at least 169 Afghan civilians in the attack at the Kabul airport.
A former research associate of MPIDSA and teacher of International Relation in DU Prof Sanjeev Srivastava also opined that with the entry of IS-KP in Afghanistan was an alarm bell for Indian agencies which needed to revisit the strategies in view of changed scenario.
“The team at France's embassy in Kabul reached Abu Dhabi before returning to France,” the statement said, suggesting that Ambassador David Martinon was returning home, too.
The airstrike fulfilled a vow President Joe Biden made to the nation Thursday when he said the perpetrators of the attack would not be able to hide.
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