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A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [ 3 ] [ 14 ] [ 4 ] the ...
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
A bomb exploded inside a Kabul mosque, killing at least 12 people and injuring another 15. [25] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility for the attack. [26] 19 May Helmand Province: 9 3 A bomb struck a car carrying a family of 12 in southern Helmand. Several of the nine family members who died were ...
The 2021 Kabul airlift was a large-scale evacuation operation conducted by the United States and its allies following the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 and during the final stages of the U.S. and NATO troop withdrawal, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. [27]
Days after the ISIS-K attack, which killed 13 US troops and 170 Afghans, Biden said the Afghanistan pullout was an "extraordinary success." Days after the ISIS-K attack, which killed 13 US troops ...
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster called on President Biden to “reverse course” in the aftermath of Thursday’s bombings in Kabul, urging him to scrap his deadline for ...
From May 1996, Osama bin Laden had been living in Afghanistan along with other members of al-Qaeda, operating terrorist training camps in a loose alliance with the Taliban. [1] Following the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, the US military launched cruise missiles at these camps with limited effect on their overall operations. A follow-on ...