President Biden has committed to withdrawing the last remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, and the mounting terrorist threats come amid ongoing efforts to evacuate as many Americans and at-risk Afghans as possible before that deadline.
The Islamic State Khorasan, or ISIS-K, continues to pose an imminent threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan as they prepare to leave the country ahead of Tuesday’s withdrawal deadline, according to Pentagon officials.
A U.S. paratrooper conducts security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 28, 2021. Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor said the targeted vehicle was “known to be an imminent ISIS-K threat,” and that “significant secondary explosions indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosives.”
“This strike was not the last,” President Biden said in a statement on Saturday. “We will continue to hunt down any person involved in that heinous attack and make them pay.”A member of the Taliban forces stands guard as Afghan men in Kabul on Monday take pictures of a vehicle from which rockets were fired.
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