A member of the Afgan security force was killed and three others are badly injured in a firefight with unknown attackers at Kabul airport today. American and German forces were involved in the gun battle and that all Bundeswehr members were uninjured. As of now, there is no further information on who the attackers are.
The British military has informed that the incident has taken place after at least seven Afghans died in a panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport yesterday.
After preoccupy Kabul, the Taliban are manning the outside perimeters of the Kabul airport. Thousands were still trying to flee the country in a chaotic exodus a week after the collapse of the Afghan government, leading to the Taliban military takeover.
The US and its allies withdrew troops from Afghanistan after a 20-year war to overthrow the Taliban and hunt down al Qaeda after the 9/11 attacks.
The Biden administration had set August end as the deadline for the complete pullout of the troops, however, with the continuously evolving situation, the US President has said it could be extended. “We’re executing a plan to move groups of these Americans to safety and to safely and effectively move them to the airport compound. For security reasons, I’m not going to go into detail … but I will say again today what I’ve said before: Any American who wants to get home will get home,” said Biden in a statement on Sunday from the White House.
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