U.S military aircraft takes off at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)A US air strike has targeted a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from the affiliate of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan before they could target the US military evacuation at Kabul’s international airport, officials said. The strike was the second by America since the airport suicide bombing. The strike killed one person, Navy Captain William Urban said. The separate rocket attack struck Kabul’s Khuwja Bughra neighbourhood, said Rashid, a Kabul police chief who goes by one name.

Source: Irish Independent August 29, 2021 13:52 UTC