Final U.S. Flights Preparing To Leave Kabul
Two C-17s on the ground at Kabul airport on Monday. Flights took off every 20 minutes, one person on the ground said, but it's unclear how many planes were there and how many more will leave today
* Seventeen flights will leave Hamid Karzai Airport on Monday carrying more than 3,000 people
* The majority of those being flown out today are Afghans; the Pentagon is becoming more opaque on exactly how many people are leaving now and the aircrafts they are on
* On Monday morning, ISIS fired five Katyusha rockets at the airport - one was shot down by the US's C-RAM weapons defense system
* Three of the rockets missed the airfield and one landed inside the US perimeter but had 'no effect'
* On Thursday, an ISIS suicide bomber killed 170 people including 13 US troops at the airport
* To retaliate, the US launched a drone strike on Sunday that is believed to have killed 10 people including 7 kids
* Every other Western nation has now left Afghanistan and the US has to be out by midnight tomorrow
Some of the final US flights left Kabul on Monday despite the airport coming under fire from five ISIS rockets and as the threat of another attack grows stronger by the minute.
Five rockets were launched at Hamid Karzai Airport on Monday morning from a sedan parked nearby.
ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they used Katyusha rockets against the US troops still on the ground.
No one is believed to have been killed in the attack; the US Army's C-RAM missile defense system took out just one of the five rockets - a 20 percent success rate.
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Update #1: Pace of US evacuation flights from Afghanistan slowing one day before Biden's deadline: officials (FOX News)
Update #2: The Pentagon Says U.S. Operations In Afghanistan Will End Soon (NPR)
WNU Editor: Who will be the last American soldier/official who will leave Afghanistan on the last flight?
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