Here’s what you need to know: Taliban fighters investigate a damaged car after multiple rockets were fired in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.Credit…Wakil Kohsar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The U.S. military shot down rockets aimed at the Kabul airport on Monday morning as violence near the field threatened efforts by the United States to meet Tuesday’s … Read more
Among the 13 American soldiers and more than a hundred Afghans killed in a suicide bombing near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Thursday, the man’s father said a Marine from the St. Louis area and a U.S. Senator. Jared Schmitz, 20, from St. Charles, Missouri, was among the dead, the Department of Defense … Read more
Dreizehn US-Soldaten wurden am Donnerstag bei einem Selbstmordanschlag nahe dem internationalen Flughafen Hamid Karzai in Kabul getötet, als Tausende nach der Übernahme Afghanistans durch die Taliban fliehen wollten. Unter ihnen waren nach Angaben des Pentagon elf Marines, sowie ein Sanitäter des Navy-Krankenhauses und ein Soldat der Armee. Mindestens 18 weitere US-Soldaten wurden verletzt, Dutzende Afghanen … Read more
Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks during a press conference at a meeting with economic and financial organizations in Berlin at the Federal Chancellery on August 26th (Clemens Bilan – Pool / Getty Images) Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that those who do not yet have access to evacuation flights from Kabul will not be forgotten, adding … Read more