Kabul explosion caused by US strikes against ISIS terrorist: Report
Earlier Sunday, the U.S. embassy in Kabul issued a security alert over “a specific, credible threat,” urging all U.S. citizens to leave the area of the Kabul airport “immediately.”
By Tobias Siegal, World Israel News
A large explosion shook the city of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday afternoon, a couple of days after two suicide bombers killed over 170 people at the capital’s airport, including 13 U.S. military personnel.
Initial reports indicate that the explosion was caused by a rocket that hit a house in the Khuwja Bughra residential area. In photos shared online, a long trail of smoke can be seen traveling from a dense area in the city, adjacent to the airport.
Two people were killed and three were injured in the incident, according to local reports.
At around the same time, the U.S. military carried out a strike in Kabul targeting suspected ISIS-K terrorists, two U.S. officials told Reuters, indicating that the U.S. retaliation attack could have been behind the explosion.
On Thursday, two suicide bombers and gunmen, later identified as ISIS-K terrorists, attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport, killing dozens of Afghan citizens and 13 U.S. service members.
The attacks came amid expedited efforts by the U.S. to evacuate its forces from the Taliban-ruled country. However, it seems like ISIS-K are taking advantage of the situation, with more potential attacks carried out as the evacuation process continues.
President Joe Biden pledged to retaliate against the attack by carrying out extensive airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group.
Earlier Sunday, the U.S. embassy in Kabul issued a security alert over “a specific, credible threat,” urging all U.S. citizens to leave the area of the Kabul airport “immediately.”
Biden had previously warned that another attack in Kabul was “highly likely.”
Biden has said that the U.S. will stick to its deadline for withdrawing all American troops from Afghanistan, which ends this Tuesday, August 31.
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