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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.
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 ...
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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 ...
K. July 2016 Kabul bombing; 2021 Kabul airport attack; 2023 Kabul airport bombing; September 2018 Kabul attacks; 5 August 2022 Kabul bombing; 17 August 2019 Kabul bombing
June 28: 2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack September 13: September 2011 Kabul attack December 6: 2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings May 21: On 20 May 2011, a Taliban Haqqani suicide bomber detonated himself in a highly guarded area where there is a military hospital named Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan Hospital, killing six medical students and injuring 23 more.
Operation Allies Refuge was an evacuation effort carried out by the United States during the 2021 Taliban offensive.It took place in the final weeks of the War in Afghanistan and saw the airlifting of certain at-risk Afghan civilians (particularly coalition-allied interpreters), employees of the American embassy in Kabul, and other prospective applicants for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV).