US strikes IS target in Afghanistan and warns of airport threat

Drone strike carried out east of Kabul as Pentagon warns of further ‘specific, credible’ threats against airport

The US has conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State target in Afghanistan on Saturday, as the airlift of those desperate to flee moved into its fraught final stages with fresh terror attack warnings and encroaching Taliban forces primed to take over the Kabul airport.

US troops overseeing the evacuation have been forced into closer security cooperation with the Taliban to prevent any repeat of a suicide bombing that killed scores of civilians crowded around one of the airport’s main access gates, and 13 American troops.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3kr1Zg2

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