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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 ...
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.
The evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan didn’t end with the departure of the last U.S. troops on Aug. 30, but it did slow to a trickle. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people ...
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]
All international airlines halted flights to Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021 as U.S. and NATO forces departed after two decades of war.
The Panjshir conflict has a ceasefire after 10 days. [36] 29 August - U.S. army launches drone strike at a residential area in Kabul following reports of a possible terrorist attack in Kabul Airport, killing ten people, including seven children. [37] 30 August
The 2021 Taliban offensive was a military offensive by the Taliban insurgent group and allied militants that led to the fall of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the end of the nearly 20-year War in Afghanistan that had begun following the United States invasion of the country.