Rocket attacks were carried out by ISIS near the international airport in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which was thwarted by the US anti-missile system.
According to the report of foreign news agency AP, eyewitnesses said that the rocket landed in Saleem Karwan Mohalla of Kabul on Monday morning. Firing was also done after the blasts but it was not immediately clear who fired the shots. Is.
Eyewitnesses, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals, said they heard three explosions and then saw a light rise in the sky.
He said people were seen fleeing after the blasts, but US officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
U.S. military cargo planes continued to evacuate the airport after rockets were fired.
Authorities briefed US President Joe Biden on the rocket attack on Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, the White House said in a statement.
"The President was informed that operations at the airport were continuing uninterrupted and reaffirmed his order that the Commander should give priority to doing whatever is necessary to protect our forces on the ground," the statement said. Double the effort.
Meanwhile, ISIS claimed responsibility for every rocket attack on Kabul Airport on Monday.
According to the Reuters news agency, the statement issued by ISIS said, "By the grace of God, the soldiers of the Khilafah hit the Kabul International Airport with six Katyusha rockets."
A U.S. drone strike on Sunday blew up a vehicle carrying "several suicide bombers" linked to the Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA) before it struck a military base at Kabul airport, U.S. officials said. Could attack the evacuation.
The attack also killed three children, an Afghan official said.
The United States is due to withdraw from Afghanistan by Tuesday. By then, the United States is ready to end the two-week-long airlift operation for more than 114,000 Afghans and foreigners and withdraw its last troops, leaving the United States with the Taliban. The longest war will end.
The US State Department issued a statement on Sunday, which was signed by about 100 countries, including NATO and the European Union.
The statement said he had been "assured" by the Taliban that people with travel documents could still leave the country.
The Taliban said they would allow normal travel and take control of the airport once the US evacuation was completed on Tuesday.
Many Afghans, however, fear a return to the Taliban's brutal rule in the past, for which they were once known.
It should be noted that 169 Afghan and 13 American service personnel were killed in a suicide attack by Islamic State outside the airport last week.
The United States launched a drone strike in Afghanistan on Saturday, claiming to have killed two members of the Islamic State group who had fought the Taliban in the past.
It should be noted that after the agreement reached with the Taliban by the administration of former US President Donald Trump, the possibility of ending the US war in Afghanistan came to light.
The agreement called for the withdrawal of all international forces from Afghanistan, with new US President Joe Biden vowing to withdraw US troops after taking office and announcing a full withdrawal by September 11 this year. ۔
However, while the US withdrawal operation was underway, the Taliban stepped up their advance and took control of Kabul on August 15.
Five rockets fired at Kabul airport in Afghanistan this morning were destroyed by the US anti-missile defense system while the US is going to complete its evacuation process tomorrow.
According to a report by the foreign news agency Reuters, Afghan media say that the rocket attack was carried out from a vehicle.
The U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said no U.S. casualties were reported in the latest rocket attack.
