Kabul airport blasts LIVE updates: Islamic State Khorasan Province is Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan. They had claimed responsibility for the twin blasts that have killed nearly 200 people, including 13 American service personnel.

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi |

Updated: August 28, 2021 7:57:50 am

Kabul airport blasts LIVE updates: the US the military conducts airstrike against ISIS-K planner as blasts’ toll nears 200.

An US Marine gives a high five to a child at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabulon Thursday. (Photo: AP)

The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after the attack at Kabul airport, the Associated Press reports.

“US military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties,” a statement by Central Command spokesperson Captain Bill Urban read.

Islamic State Khorasan Province is Islamic State’s affiliate in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul’s airport Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country’s history, as the death toll from the previous day’s blast neared 200 with hundreds more wounded, keeping the city’s hospitals grimly busy all day. The suicide bombing ripped right into the jostling throng on Thursday afternoon, piling an adjacent sewage canal with corpses. Health officials said at least 170 civilians had been killed, and likely more. The attack also killed 13 US service members.

Hundreds of Afghans desperate to flee the Taliban continued to crowd Kabul’s airport Friday, even after one of the deadliest bombings in the country’s history, as the death toll from the previous day’s blast neared 200 with hundreds more wounded, keeping the city’s hospitals grimly busy all day.

The size of the crowd at the airport had dropped sharply, however, with a fear paring the numbers down to hundreds from the thousands of previous days. The suicide bombing ripped right into the jostling throng Thursday afternoon, piling an adjacent sewage canal with corpses. Health officials said at least 170 civilians had been killed, and likely more.