American Drone Strike Hits Suicide Attackers Targeting Kabul Airport (Updated)
Security threats grow as the time left before the US military is scheduled to fully withdraw from Afghanistan is likely measured in hours, not days.
Security threats grow as the time left before the US military is scheduled to fully withdraw from Afghanistan is likely measured in hours, not days.
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The operation comes just a day after President Biden vowed to make the terror group pay for its heinous suicide bombing at Kabul's Airport.
An informal group dubbed Task Force Pineapple has been shepherding Afghans past the Taliban to the safety of Kabul airport for nearly two weeks.
Cape Decision Lighthouse includes a long wooden catwalk and helipad, the latter of which helped save the remote facility from a fire in 1989.
These controlled detonations help account for reports of additional explosions in Afghanistan's capital after yesterday's deadly terrorist attack.
It isn't clear if the surge in Chinese drone presence over the East China Sea is indicative of a new trend or prelude to a major naval movement.
A complex attack on the heart of America's evacuation operation in Kabul has caused the deaths of multiple U.S. servicepeople and even more Afghans.
The Navy had long touted conformal fuel tanks as offering vital additional range for its Super Hornets.
Warnings of a potential attack on Kabul airport from ISIS have been growing more urgent for days.
Germany's KSK and the 160th SOAR joined forces to evacuate stranded foreigners deep in Taliban-controlled Kabul.
The Taliban have captured dozens of former Afghan military aircraft, prompting concerns about what the group might do with them.
There are no good options and each one has major operational hurdles and glaring pitfalls to overcome.
With the priority being placed on getting people out of the Talian-controlled country, getting even high-tech weapons out may not be possible in time.
While cruise missiles and bombs are very capable, nothing wrecks a ship like a well-placed torpedo shot from a prowling submarine.
The Arctic base's runway was expanded last year and now a large apron area is being built to support large-scale deployments.
The USS San Francisco was already cut up once after impacting a seamount. The submarine was chopped up again to make it into a floating schoolhouse.
The Taliban say the U.S. must be out by August 31st, but getting everyone out of Afghanistan via Kabul airport by then is becoming quite unrealistic.
The Taliban move to take on the "new Northern Alliance" and the U.S. activates its Civil Reserve Air Fleet to open bottlenecks in the evacuation.
The fleet can dramatically bolster the Pentagon's own air transport capabilities and that is what it will do for the evacuation of Afghanistan.