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Two powerful bomb blasts have struck the perimeter of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, as civilians continued to seek to escape on flights from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
At least 60 people have been killed and 140 others wounded, a senior health official in Kabul told the BBC.
The Pentagon confirmed US service personnel were among those killed – 11 US Marines and a Navy medic.
The BBC’s Secunder Kermani reports live from Kabul and Newsnight’s David Grossman looks at what happened as the day unfolded.
Mark Urban is joined by former chief of UK defence staff Lord Richards, former British Army colonel in Afghanistan Ash Alexander-Cooper and Democratic congresswoman Susan Wild.
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We were leaving and the Taliban had to bomb our U.S. Marines. Perhaps now is the time to bring all of this to a head literally destroy the Taliban with a total and devastating missile and bombing attack. Sadly there will be collateral damage. On 9-11, there was a high number of Americans that the Taliban considered to be collateral damage. Rid the world of the Taliban once and for all by any and all means at our disposal. There will never be peace or freedom for people living under their control.
yall aint nothing but some cookies to me
What is the benefit
To involve in this? This is the world,not humanity
Taliban will be ended really soon if they provoked the US a second afghan invasion.
When the yanks good rid of mr orange, I didn’t expect this mummy to be better, just not to suck as much. Now this borderline senile moron not only allowed for the most humiliating American defeat (yes defeat, even if political its still a defeat) since Vietnam, he also let isis bomb one of the main evaquation sites, leading to at least 90 dead afghans and 13 of his soldiers. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I doubt Trump could have done worse.