US President Joe Biden visited Dover Air Force Base on Sunday to honor members of the US army killed in a suicide bombing assault whereas evacuating civilians from Kabul airport final week.
Several Afghans and 13 American troopers have been killed in an Islamic State suicide assault exterior Kabul airport on Thursday.
A White House occasion confirmed Biden and his spouse Jill assembly the households of service members killed within the assault.
They will then watch the troopers transfer the stays from a aircraft flown to the bottom in Delaware.
Thursday’s assault, which was claimed by Islamic State’s Afghan ally ISIS-Okay, was the deadliest for US service members in Afghanistan in a decade.
The bombing befell exterior the airport gate, the place hundreds of individuals have been attempting to take off because the Taliban returned to energy on August 15.
The Taliban’s speedy progress throughout the nation amid the withdrawal of American and Allied troops, and the chaotic scenes on the airport current Biden together with his largest international coverage problem so far.
Biden has vowed to punish these answerable for the airport bomb. The US army stated on Saturday that it had killed two ISIS-Okay militants in a drone strike in Afghanistan.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
