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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 ...
Accordingly, the US agreed to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by 1 May 2021. [32] [33] The Taliban failed to honor most of its pledges in the agreement. [33] Nonetheless, the Biden administration decided to continue with the planned withdrawal, although it pushed back the completion date first to 11 September 2021 and then to 31 August ...
Gold Star families of the American service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack demanded answers from President Joe Biden and his administration.
Pages in category "Fall of Kabul (2021)" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
On 14 April 2021, President Biden announced his intention to withdraw all regular US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September 2021. On 27 April, the State Department ordered employees at the Kabul embassy to leave if their "function [could] be performed elsewhere." The move was not expected to reduce embassy capability. [17]
The offensive began on 1 May 2021, [90] [91] [18] coinciding with the withdrawal of the United States's 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, and those belonging to other international allies. [92] Large numbers of armed civilians, including women, volunteered with the Afghan Army in defense, [ 93 ] [ 94 ] [ 95 ] while some former warlords, notably ...
School officials have raised concerns about 16 adults and 24 students from the Cajon Valley Union School District in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon.