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A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those ...
[23] [24] U.S. President Joe Biden received multiple reports of a possible attack during the week preceding the attack, [25] and warned on 22 August in remarks from the White House that the longer U.S. troops remained in the country, the greater the threat that ISIS would pose to American personnel and civilians near the airport. [26] Hours ...
New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during ...
An explosion went off on Thursday outside the Kabul airport, where thousands of people have gathered to try to flee the country on Western airlift since the Taliban seized power earlier this month.
The airport was originally named as Khwaja Rawash Airport because it was built in the area named Khwaja Rawash. It was given the name Kabul Airport in 1960 after the Soviet Union built a terminal and a concrete runway. From 2014 to 2021, it was named Hamid Karzai International Airport [4] [5] in honor of former President Hamid Karzai.
The attack occurred soon after the Fall of Kabul which led to the end of the War in Afghanistan that lasted from 2001 to 2021. In the days after the Fall of Kabul, mass civilian evacuations took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport. During these evacuations, the airport was attacked by a suicide bomber, which killed at least 183 people.
A “complex attack” involving at least two explosions outside the airport in Kabul on Thursday killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 15 others, the Pentagon said. The attack also killed ...
July 31: A Polish Land Forces Mi-24V Hind attack helicopter was destroyed, on route to Ghazni from Kabul it was hit by heavy machine gun fire and forced to make a hard landing. [136] July 20: A British Royal Air Force GR4 Tornado fighter jet crashed at Kandahar air base during takeoff at 7:20 a.m. The two pilots were injured after ejecting from ...