FOLLOW LIVE: Injured people arrive at a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan
Multiple explosions have rocked Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.Posted by Greg NormanBill, a witness in Kabul, Afghanistan, describes the situation at the Kabul airport following an explosion.Posted by Greg NormanSmoke is seen rising from an explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday. At least 3 U.S. Marines were injured in the blast, officials tell Fox News.
"There has been a large explosion at the airport, and there are reports of gunfire," the alert said."U.S. citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately."A second explosion has been reported near Kabul’s airport, Fox News has confirmed. Capitol Hill sources tell Fox News’ Chad Pergram that the explosion happened outside Kabul’s airport after someone detonated a suicide vest.
A White House official said earlier Thursday that around 13,400 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan between 3 a.m. ET Wednesday and 3 a.m. ET this morning. A total 5,200 U.S. troops currently remain at Kabul's airport, down from a peak of 5,800 a few days ago, Fox News has learned. Evacuation flights also are beginning to slow down. More than 13,000 evacuated yesterday -- but that is down 6,000 from the day before, according to the latest Pentagon stats.
A White House official said Thursday that around 13,400 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan between 3 a.m. ET Wednesday and 3 a.m. ET this morning. She reiterated the U.S. has already evacuated more than 80,000 people since the Taliban took Kabul earlier this month. U.S. Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load people being evacuated from Afghanistan onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021.
The latest reports followed a U.S. Embassy warning in Afghanistan that U.S. citizens who might be gathered at specific gates of the Kabul airport should"leave immediately." U.S. Reps. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey spoke with Biden after a bill signing ceremony at the White House, PBS reporter Meredith Lee posted on Twitter.
A former translator for a high-ranking U.S. Army Ranger in Afghanistan told Fox News Wednesday the Taliban have begun publicly executing allies of the U.S. in provinces away from the media attention of Kabul. The United States has fought against the Taliban, al Qaeda, and the Haqqani insurgent groups in Afghanistan for the last two decades, but counter-terrorism experts warn that the imminent threat ISIS-K poses could prove catastrophic.
Zimmerman explained that the group has an even more hardline vision of its interpretation of Islam than the Taliban, and that has established an adversarial dynamic between the two terrorist organizations.
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