Taliban: US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bomber Targeting Airport

Taliban: US Airstrike Hits Suicide Bomber Targeting Airport
UK military personnel boarding a A400M aircraft departing Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 28, 2021. Jonathan Gifford/MoD via AP
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KABUL, Afghanistan—The Taliban said that a U.S. airstrike targeted a suicide bomber in a vehicle Sunday who wanted to attack the Kabul international airport amid the American military’s evacuation there.

There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.