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After the fall of Kabul to the Taliban on 15 August 2021, Hamid Karzai International Airport was the only way out of Afghanistan. [20] Security concerns grew after hundreds of members of the Islamic State – Khorasan Province escaped from jails at Bagram and Pul-e-Charkhi.
After the Taliban seized all border crossings, Kabul Airport remained the only secure route out of Afghanistan. [41] After the fall of Herat on 13 August, the US deployed an additional 3,000 troops and the UK deployed 600 troops to Kabul Airport to secure the airlifts of their nationals, embassy staff, and Afghan citizens who worked with ...
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 ...
Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan is where the evacuation flights were staged Al Minhad Air Base and Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and RAF Akrotiri in the Island of Cyprus constituted stop-overs as part of the airbridge; C-130, C-17 and A400M aircraft brought passengers from Afghanistan ...
Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul At least 182 At least 150 2021 Kabul airport attack - Hamid Karzai International Airport was attacked by suicide bombers and gunmen; the attack was claimed by Islamic State – Khorasan Province. It was the deadliest day for the US military (13 killed) in Afghanistan since 2011. 18 September 2021
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. After the Taliban returned to power in 2021, the name was changed back to Kabul International Airport. [5]
January 10: The first of the January 2017 Afghanistan bombings was a twin suicide bombing in front of the National Assembly of Afghanistan in Kabul, killing 46 people. Later attacks took place in Kandahar and Lashkargah. February 7: A suicide bombing near the Supreme Court of Afghanistan killed at least 20 people. [5] [6] March 8: March 2017 ...
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack, saying, "it was another terrorist act that once again shows the Taliban are serving the enemies of Islam". [5] UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack, stating, "Targeted attacks against civilians are unacceptable and a serious breach of international humanitarian law". [6]