Hours after an American military drone strike in Kabul on Sunday, US defence department officials said it had blown up a vehicle laden with explosives, eliminating a threat to Kabul’s airport fr...
The suicide bomb blast that killed more than 170 people crowded outside Abbey Gate at Kabul’s airport on Thursday also sundered a family gathered there, hoping to flee.
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One of the last photos that Marine Sergeant Nicole Gee shared with her family from Afghanistan shows her in dusty body armour with a rifle, her long blond hair pulled back, her hands in tactical glove...
A US airstrike on Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying multiple suicide bombers from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul&...
Just after the blast, the United States said it carried out an airstrike in Kabul, which the Taliban too confirmed and said that the target was one ISIS-K suicide bomber who was on a vehicle, attempti...
The US has evacuated approximately 2,000 people from the Kabul airport in the last 24 hours, the White House has said, as the countdown for the end of America's longest military mission begins in ...
President Joe Biden vowed to keep up airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members. Another terror ...
A crowd straining to get into Hamid Karzai International Airport had converged on Abbey Gate, a main entryway manned by Marines and other service members. The troops knew that they could be targeted i...
By Helene Cooper, Eric Schmitt, Thomas Gibbons-Neff
in Washington
The deadly attack on Kabul airport has underlined the realpolitik facing western powers in Afghanistan: engaging with the Taliban may be their best chance to prevent the country sliding into a breedin...
The nightmare that kept counterterrorism experts awake even before the Taliban returned to power is that Afghanistan would become fertile ground for terrorist groups, most notably al Qaida and the Isl...
By Ben Hubbard, Eric Schmitt, Matthew Rosenberg
in Doha