Taliban kill IS militant behind Kabul airport attack
By DW
01 May 2023 |
2:29 pm
Thirteen American soldiers and scores of Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan in August 2021.
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