Afghanistan crisis: Threat at Kabul airport "still real" as US withdrawal deadline looms | FULL

The U.S. Department of Defense is warning about the possibility of future attacks on the Kabul airport as the deadline for troop withdrawal approaches.

The last U.S. troops are due to pull out of Kabul by Tuesday, after they and their allies mounted the biggest air evacuation in history, bringing more than 122,000 of their own citizens and Afghans who helped them over the previous 20 years of war.

A U.S. drone strike killed an alleged suicide car bomber who had been preparing to strike the Kabul airport on Sunday, pentagon officials said.

“There was in fact, after we took this airstrike against this vehicle, there were rocket attacks – indirect fire rocket attacks on the airport – so the threat stream is still real, it’s still active and in many cases it’s still specific. And we’re taking it very seriously and we will right up until the end,” said Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby.

Kirby said that as many as five rockets fired at the Kabul airport were also intercepted.
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