A suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, took place on 26 August 2021 at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC),[9] during the evacuation from Afghanistan.[1][10][11][12] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military,[13][4] the first American military casualties in Afghanistan since February 2020.[14] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the attack.[15]
At least 182 people were killed during the attack, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 US service members. Two of the killed civilians were British dual-nationals and one was the child of a British national.[3][41] It was initially reported that 28 Taliban fighters had also been killed in the attack, but this was later denied by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid in an interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.[42] The dead Americans were identified as eleven Marines, one soldier, and one Navy corpsman.[43][5][13][44] The American deaths were the first of American service deaths in Afghanistan since February 2020 and were the largest single loss of life of US military personnel since the 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown.[45]
At least 150 more people were injured,[4] including 18 US military personnel and a number of Taliban members.[46
On 27 August, the United States launched an airstrike against three suspected ISIL-KP members in Nangarhar Province.[16] On 29 August, a U.S. drone attack against a suspected ISIS-KP suicide bomber in Kabul is reported as having led to the deaths of a family of ten, including seven children who were close to the target vehicle carrying the suspected bomber.[17][18]
On 29 August, a drone strike was carried out by the United States, targeting a vehicle carrying a suspected ISIL-KP member who was believed to be trying to reach Kabul airport to carry out an attack. According to relatives, 10 nearby civilians were killed, including seven children.[18][17] Some of those killed had previously worked for international organisations and held visas allowing them US entry.[18] US officials said the vehicle was carrying at least one ISIL-KP member and that there had been a number of "substantial and powerful subsequent explosions" following the drone strike, which the BBC said implied "there were explosives at the scene".[78]
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