LEBANON— Daesh-Khorasan claimed responsibility a
rocket attack Monday on the airport in Afghanistan's capital.
They “targeted Kabul's international
airport with six ...
rockets," the group said in a statement.
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The rockets fell as US troops were racing to complete their
withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies.
President Joe Biden has set a deadline of Tuesday to
withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, drawing to a close his nation's
longest military conflict, which began in retaliation for the September 11
attacks.
Daesh-Khorasan, rivals of the Taliban, pose the biggest
threat to the withdrawal, after carrying out a suicide bombing outside the
airport late last week that claimed more than 100 lives, including those of 13
US troops.
The United States meanwhile said it had carried out an air
strike on Sunday night in Kabul on an Daesh-prepared car bomb.
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