20:06 GMT Biden to speak on Kabul airport attack on Thursday: White House 20:07 GMT Third blast heard in Kabul, Taliban say US military destroying ammunitionĪ Taliban spokesperson confirmed that a third blast reported by local and international media around Kabul was from the US military destroying ammunitions.Īl Jazeera’s Rob McBride reporting from Kabul said the explosion sounded like a ” very large thud, a huge bang”. “To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm, know this: We will not forgive. President Joe Biden vowed to retaliate against the attack in Kabul, confirming that the bombings were carried out by ISKP, ISIL’s affiliate in Afghanistan. 21:41 GMT ‘We will hunt you down,’ Biden warns attacker The US president added at the conclusion of his speech, “Ladies and gentlemen, it was time to end a 20-year war.” “The reason why there were no attacks on Americans … was because the commitment was made by President Trump, ‘I will be out by May 1 in the meantime, you agree not to attack any Americans’,” Biden said. President Joe Biden said the reason there had been no American combat fatalities in Afghanistan since February 2020 prior to Thursday’s attack was because of the deal his predecessor Donald Trump had signed with the Taliban. 22:01 GMT Biden says US troops did not face attacks over past year because of withdrawal deal White House press secretary Jen Psaki during the daily briefing at the White House, August 26 She added that Washington remains committed to get American citizens and US allies out of the country, even after US troops pull out of Afghanistan completely on August 31. “It is not going to be possible for every single Afghan, millions potentially, who want to leave Afghanistan to be evacuated,” Psaki said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said it will be impossible for the United States to evacuate all Afghans looking to leave the country. 22:26 GMT Not possible to evacuate all Afghans looking to leave: White House “A thirteenth US service member has died from his wounds suffered as a result of the attack on Abbey Gate,” Central Command spokesman Captain Bill Urban said in a statement. The US Defense Department has announced that the number of US troops killed in the blasts at Kabul airport rose by one to 13 and the number of injured was 18. 23:27 GMT US military’s toll in Kabul bombing rises to 13: Pentagon “A total of approximately 7,500 people were evacuated from Kabul,” over a 12-hour period on Thursday, the White House added. The Taliban has given the US until August 31 to withdraw its troops and evacuate its citizens as well as Afghans with documents to leave. “Since August 14, the US has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approximately 100,100 people,” the White House said in a statement issued on Thursday hours after a twin blast killed dozens of Afghans and at least 13 US troops, at one of the entrances at Kabul airport. The US has announced that more than 100,000 people from Afghanistan have been evacuated since August 14, the eve of the Taliban’s return to power. 00:33 GMT US: Over 100,000 evacuated from Afghanistan since August 14 “Phone calls to the numbers on the documents revealed that some Afghan employees and their families remained stranded on the wrong side of the airport perimeter wall days after their details were left in the dirt in the haste of the embassy’s evacuation on August 15,” the report said. Staff of the United Kingdom’s embassy in Kabul, who hurriedly evacuated following the Taliban takeover on August 15, have left documents with contact details of Afghans working for them, as well as other identifying information such as job applications of Afghans, according to an exclusive report by The Times in the UK.Īccording to the report the documents were left scattered on the ground at the British embassy compound in Kabul that has been seized by the Taliban. 01:36 GMT Documents with details of Afghan staff left at UK embassy in Kabul: report Two US officials said at least one of the explosions appeared to be from a suicide bombing. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said one blast occurred near the airport’s Abbey Gate and the other close to the nearby Baron Hotel. I will defend our interests in our people with every measure at my command.” US President Joe Biden pledged to retaliate against the attack in Kabul, confirming that the bombings were carried out by Islamic State Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K) the ISIL’s (ISIS’s) group affiliate in Afghanistan. Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 Banks in Kabul reopen, drawing crowds of cash-starved Afghans list 2 of 3 US pledges to pressure Taliban to allow departures past August 31 list 3 of 3 How an Afghan refugee crisis at sea transformed Australia policy end of list
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