Rockets are fired at Kabul airport as US troops race to evacuate: Attack follows American drone strike on ISIS-K that killed three children and other civilians after setting off jihadists' explosives
At least five rockets have been fired at Hamid Karzai airport in the Afghan capital of Kabul this morning, a US official said, with most intercepted by missile defence systems. There are currently no reports of US casualties but that information may change, the official added, saying it is not clear whether all of the rockets were intercepted. It is just the latest attack on the airfield after an ISIS-K suicide bomber blew themselves up at a military checkpoint last week, killing 170 people including 13 US Marines, before an American drone strike thwarted what was believed to be a group of ISIS-K suicide bombers preparing to launch another bomb attack on Sunday. The strike hit two cars filled with explosives sitting outside a house to the north of the airfield, triggering a secondary explosion which killed at least three children and left other civilians wounded
