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Twelve U.S. service members have been killed in a terrorist attack on the evacuation operation at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan on Thursday, Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie of U.S. Central Command said. “It’s a hard day today,” McKenzie said. He said another 15 service members were wounded, and there were many casualties among Afghan civilians. He blamed Islamic State in Khorasan, also known as ISIS-K, a local affiliate of the Iraq- and Syria-based terrorist group. McKenzie said the attack, which occurred at an airport gate a...
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Thursday morning there had been an explosion outside of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, hours after the U.S. and U.K. governments warned their citizens to avoid traveling to the airport in Kabul because of the risk of attacks. Two explosions outside Kabul’s international airport caused an unknown number of casualties and deaths less than a week before U.S. forces are due to depart. “A number of US & civilian casualties” were caused by one blast outside the Abbey Gate used by...
I was looking over back-to-school supply lists from area schools this month — ‘tis the season, after all, even for those of us whose children are grown. It took me back to my own elementary days even as I realized that many of the items on today’s lists weren’t even invented when I was a kid: dry erase markers, highlighters, hand sanitizer, and zip lock bags, to name a few. One beloved item from my youth remains on every list I saw, however, much to my delight. Crayons...
