Joe Biden to Kabul attackers: ‘We will hunt you down and make you pay’

US President Joe Biden promised to take vengeance on Thursday (local hour) for the deaths of 13 soldiers killed earlier in the day in a fatal suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. Biden seemingly spoke emotively at the White House to the attack’s extremists who are affiliated with the Islamic State (IS) and said it would not be forgotten and not forgiven by the United States. “We won’t forgive anyone who perpetrated this attack and anyone who wants harm to America knows this. We’re not going to forget about that. We’re going to hunt you down and pay you,” Biden said.

According to the Ministry of Public Health of Afghanistan, more than 50 Afghani people were killed and at least 130 were seriously injured following a series of deadly bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the attacks which involved suicide bombing on the airport, at least 13 US service members have been killed and 18 others have been injured. The US Marine Corps also reported that ten Marines were killed, but that the central command did not detect the dead by service.

The assaults are being carried out through the efforts to expel people from the Afghan capital, led by the US and other countries, before Biden’s withdrawal deadline of 31 August. According to the Associated Press, as many as 1,000 Americans and many more Afghans continue to fight to get away from Kabul.

In his White House speech after the Kabul attacks, U.S. President Joe Biden asked a moment of silence to honour the falling soldiers and bowed his head and ordered that the U.S. Flags fly half-mannered throughout the country. Biden said in reference to the bombers and armed gunmen who were involved in the attack, adding that military commanders were instructed to develop plans for striking the IS ‘assets, leadership and installations.’ “We have some reason to believe we know… not sure.

The ISIS in Khrasan, also known as ISIS-K, reports CNN that an ISIS bomber was committing the suicide bombing of the airport in Kabul, a menace that was previously alerted to by the United States Department of Defense.

In recent years, Afghanistan’s IS affiliate has carried out numerous attacks on its civilian targets. The Taliban took power less than two weeks ago is far more radical. In April 2017 the largest conventional bomb on an IS cave and tunnel complex dropped in its weapons, the most prominent American attack on the group. The U.S. More recent reports suggest that the group has concentrated in urban areas, making US efforts to target them without harming civilians more complicated.

By:  Divyanshi Jaiswal