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[23] [24] U.S. President Joe Biden received multiple reports of a possible attack during the week preceding the attack, [25] and warned on 22 August in remarks from the White House that the longer U.S. troops remained in the country, the greater the threat that ISIS would pose to American personnel and civilians near the airport. [26] Hours ...
The same day, Marines submitted a spot report of a military-aged male, wearing a “beige man dress” and carrying a black bag, walking with a child toward the North Gate of the airport.
Suicide bombers struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport with at least two explosions on Thursday, causing a bloodbath among civilians and U.S. troops, and bringing a catastrophic halt to the ...
The blast at 5:36 p.m. on August 26, 2021, outside Hamid Karzai International Airport marked the worst casualty incident for Afghan civilians and US troops in Afghanistan in over a decade.
On 1 January 2023, a bombing at a checkpoint outside the military airport in Kabul, located about 200 metres from the civilian Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan killed and injured several people. [1] [2] [3] The following day, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing on Telegram, claiming to have killed 20 people and ...
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 ...
Image: President Joe Biden pauses while giving remarks after 13 American servicemen were killed in attacks near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021.
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]