75 Civilians, 13 US Troops Killed In Kabul Blasts, ISIS Claims Attack

Twin suicide bombings broke out on Thursday outside the Kabul airport, killing scores, including 13 US troops, as well as intensifying panic in the final days of a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan already frenzied evacuation effort.

The bombings by the ISIS Group left carnage scenes off the airport, where, despite a host of foreign government alerts – only a few hours before – tens of thousands of Afghans who desperately wanted to get away from their country, there was an imminent terrorist attack.

President Joe Biden said that the airlift will not be derailed or vowed to punish the perpetrators, subject to huge pressure on his administration to handle the Afghan crisis.

“We’re not going to pardon. We’re not going to forget about that. We’re going to hunt and make you pay, “He said. However, Biden insisted that all the American troops should leave Afghanistan and, partly because of the threat of more IS attacks, the airlift ends on Tuesday.

Since the Taliban came into power on 15 August, more than 100,000 people have fled Afghanistan, desperately escaping the feared hardline rule of fundamentalist Islamists.
As soon as American troops left, the Taliban allows U.S. forces to conduct the airlift and planned to finish its own regime.But the IS jihadists, Taliban rivals in Afghanistan, intended to capitalise on the chaos in Kabul with their own record of barbaric attacks.

ISIS threat

Some of the most fatal attacks in these countries have taken place in recent years in the ISIS State chapter Afghanistan/Pakistan.

Civilians have been massacred in mosques, shrines, public squares and even hospitals.

The group has targeted particularly Muslims, including Shiites, from sects it sees as heretical.However, both Sunni ISIS terrorists have been hardline and the Taliban are opposed.
“These are even more extreme individuals than the Taliban and are essentially in war with the Taliban. So the situation is awfully complex, “Dutton, Minister of Defense of Australia said.
In comparison to their first stint in power, which ended when the United States invaded Al-Qaeda in 2001, the Taliban promised a softer brand.

But many Afghans fear a repeat of the Taliban’s brutal interpretation of Islamic law, as well as violent retribution for working with foreign militaries, Western missions or the previous US-backed government.

There are particular concerns for women, who were largely banned from education and employment and could only leave the house with a male chaperone during the group’s 1996-2001 rule.

By: Divyanshi Jaiswal