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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 first American ...
2021 Kabul airlift. Large-scale evacuations of foreign citizens and some vulnerable Afghan citizens took place amid the withdrawal of US and NATO forces at the end of the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban took control of Kabul and declared victory on 15 August 2021, and the NATO-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan collapsed.
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 ...
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.
Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, more than 1,000 civilians were killed in attacks, UN says. RAHIM FAIEZ. June 26, 2023 at 11:03 PM. ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations said Tuesday it ...
Kirby described one of the blasts as a “complex attack” outside the Abbey Gate near the Kabul airport that reportedly killed “a number of U.S. service members” and as many as 60 Afghans ...
A U.S. Army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. On April 18, 2012, the Los Angeles Times released photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead insurgents, [1] [2] after a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division gave the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to "a breakdown in security, discipline and professionalism" [3 ...
March 17–18 – Various Taliban attacks in the country left five PMCs dead and two missing. [42] March 28 – Three PMCs were killed by a landmine in Farah province. [116] April 23 - Taliban militants attacked a U.S.-funded Afghan construction company killing one PMC. [117] May 24 - Various Taliban attacks in the country left three PMCs dead ...