At least 13 US troops and scores of civilians killed after Islamic State kills ‘translators and collaborators of American army’ outside airport
US troops helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday after Islamic State struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport, killing scores of civilians and at least 13 US troops.
Gen Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, said US commanders were on alert for more attacks by Islamic State, including possibly rockets or vehicle-borne bombs targeting the airport.US forces are racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan by an August 31 deadline set by President Joe Biden, who says the US had long ago achieved its original rationale for invading the country in 2001: to root out al-Qaeda militants and prevent a repeat of the September 11 attacks on the US.
Corpses were in the canal by the airport fence, video from the scene showed, some being fished out and laid in heaps while wailing civilians searched for loved ones. “Men, women and children were screaming. I saw many injured people – men, women and children – being loaded into private vehicles and taken towards the hospitals,” he said.
In the past 12 days, Western countries have evacuated nearly 100,000 people. But they acknowledge that thousands will be left behind when the last US troops leave at the end of the month.
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