Aug. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has remembered the more than 100 Afghan civilians and 13 US soldiers who died exactly one year ago in the double attack committed by the Islamic State at the entrance to the airport in Kabul, the Afghan capital, during the operation evacuation after the city fell to the Taliban.
The attacks on July 26, 2021 began in the vicinity of the Abbey Gate, one of the main access points to the former Hamid Karzai International Airport.
There, a terrorist began the operation by detonating the explosive charge he was carrying in the middle of the crowd, since hundreds of people were still near the airfield despite repeated warnings of an imminent attack.
Following the explosion, several jihadists opened fire on people indiscriminately, before a second explosion occurred at the nearby Hotel Baron.
A year later, the president has defended his country’s achievements in the fight against terrorism after this “horrible attack” and recalled the operations against the leaders of the Islamic State, Abu Ibrahim al Hashemi al Qurash, and Al Qaeda, Ayman al Zawahiri .
Biden has also defended the withdrawal from Afghanistan and his current strategy by which the country “maintains pressure against terrorist threats without endangering the military.”
“My administration will continue to hunt down terrorists who seek to harm the United States, wherever they may be found,” he said.
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