In Afghanistan

Rockets struck a neighborhood near Kabul's international airport on Aug. 30 amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn't immediately clear who launched them.

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The rockets struck on Aug. 30 morning in Kabul's Salim Karwan neighborhood, witnesses said. Gunfire immediately followed the explosions but it wasn't immediately clear who was firing.

Turkey is ready to lend all kinds of support for Afghanistan's unity but will follow a very cautious path, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said, reiterating it will first wait to see what sort of an administration the Taliban would establish to run this country with 40 million population.

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.

The U.S. conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into its fraught final stages with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to take over Kabul airport.

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Explosions hit Kabul airport on Thursday, killed some 90 people - among them 13 US military personnel. 

 The US service members killed in the attack included 10 Marines and one Navy medic, news agency AP reported quoting two US officials.

At least 150 people were also wounded in the attack, which the so-called Islamic State group says it was behind.

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, killing more than 70 people, including many US troops, who are practically in control of Kabul airport to ensure the evacuation of all foreigners and their associates from Afghanistan.

At least 28 Taliban members are among those killed in the Islamic State attack outside Kabul airport

President Joe Biden is vowing to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan despite the deadly suicide bomb attack at the Kabul airport.

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He promised to avenge the deaths of 13 U.S. service members among 110 people killed in the attack, declaring to the extremists responsible: "We will hunt you down and make you pay."

An Afghan singer who has used her international fame to amplify calls for women's rights wore an all-enveloping veil to escape her homeland as the Taliban took Kabul.

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At least two explosions have been reported near the Abbey Gate, being used for evacuations at Kabul airport.

One blast was near the Baron Hotel, being used as a staging post by Western nations for evacuations.

Victims including children, were killed in an alleged suicide bombing near Kabul airport, Reuters reported, citing a Taliban spokesman.