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US Used Drone to Hit IS Member Involved in Terror Attack on Kabul Airport
Acting swiftly on President Joe Biden's promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the US military said it used a drone strike to kill a member of the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate Saturday.
Israeli PM aims to push Biden away from Iran nuclear deal
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Biden says US-led evacuation from Kabul is accelerating
President Joe Biden said on Aug. 22 the U.S.-led evacuation of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others from the Kabul airport picked up speed this weekend, although it remains vulnerable to threats posed by the Islamic State extremist group.
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Afghans at Risk Appeal to Biden to Speed up Evacuation
Educated young women, former U.S. military translators and other Afghans most at-risk from the Taliban appealed to the Biden administration to get them on evacuation flights as the United States struggled to bring order to the continuing chaos at the Kabul airport.
U.S. soldiers fired shots at Kabul airport VIDEO
That information was also confirmed by the Pentagon, the media report.
Footage from the airport shows soldiers defending the space at the airport, while the crowd tries to break through the barbed wire fence.
At that moment, the soldiers fired bullets to calm the people gathered as "crowd control measure".
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