'This is the most dangerous time in an already extraordinarily dangerous mission,' the secretary of state warned.
Following the Thursday attack, Biden promised retaliation against ISIS-K."We will hunt you down and make you pay," the president threatened."I can confirm, as more information has come in, that two high-profiletargets were killed, and one was wounded. And we know of zero civilian casualties," Major General Hank Taylor, deputy director of the Joint Staff For Regional Operations, said in a news conference on Saturday.
The U.S. military has maintained control of the Kabul airport as it quickly works to evacuate Americans, allies and Afghan refugees still within the country. Approximately 113,500 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since August 14, according to the White House.
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