Devastating scenes unfolded on the Kabul airport on Thursday after an Islamic State suicide bomber killed over 80 folks deepening the chaos within the last days of frantic evacuation efforts forward of the US’ withdrawal from Afghanistan. The assaults killed dozens of Afghan civilians and a minimum of 13 US service members.
US President Joe Biden on Thursday vowed to avenge the deaths, declaring that he would ‘hunt down’ the perpetrators and make them pay. He stated the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate was accountable for the assaults. “We have some reason to believe we know who they are,” he stated. “Not certain.”
Meanwhile, India, whereas condemning the assaults outdoors Kabul airport that has killed a minimum of 73 folks, stated such incidents “reinforce the need for the world to stand unitedly against terrorism and all those who provide sanctuaries to terrorists”.
Here is how the worldwide media lined the Kabul assaults
The New York Times
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The New York Times stated that the deaths had been “just the kind of military loss Mr. Biden has repeatedly said he was trying to avoid by ending America’s 20-year war in the country.” It identified that Biden acted towards the recommendation of his generals and overseas coverage advisors, to announce in April that he couldn’t ask extra American troops to take part in a struggle that he believed was not in the very best pursuits of the US.
“But the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban caught the administration off-guard and set in motion a chaotic evacuation in which 6,000 American troops attempted to secure the Kabul airport against the Taliban and terror groups.”
The scenario in Afghanistan on Thursday was precisely what President Biden “feared most”, in keeping with the New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal
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In its lead story, the Wall Street Journal described the chaotic scenes that broke out quickly after the 2 blasts ripped via crowds of individuals making their means in the direction of Kabul airport to flee the Taliban regime. “A suicide bomb attack at the airport’s Abbey Gate was followed by an assault by gunmen, officials said. Eighteen US service members were injured, the Pentagon said,” the WSJ report learn.
The assault marked the deadliest day for the US army in a decade, the WSJ report said. Meanwhile, one other report highlighted the mounting criticism towards Biden for what some are seeing as a hasty retreat. It quoted a number of Republican lawmakers, together with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who launched a scathing assault on the US president for his dealing with of the disaster in Afghanistan.
The Telegraph
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The UK’s Telegraph described yesterday’s assault as “America’s deadliest day in Afghanistan for a decade”. It highlighted how the assault upended the ultimate hours of worldwide airlifts from Kabul airport. Soon after the primary explosion, US troops allegedly closed the gates of the airport and so they had been later welded shut, the Telegraph reported.
It went on to state that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted that Britain would proceed with the ultimate phases of its evacuation efforts regardless of the circumstances. “It isn’t going to interrupt our progress. We are going to get on with this evacuation,” the newspaper quoted him.
But a number of international locations had been pressured to name off their evacuation operations. Norway’s Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide introduced the top of her nation’s efforts. Germany, too, declared, that its airlift was over.
The Mirror
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— The Mirror (@DailyMirror) August 26, 2021
The UK’s Mirror referred to as the carnage in Kabul “barbaric”. It reported on the “race against time” to evacuate individuals who stay stranded within the Afghan capital. Meanwhile, British troops are braced for extra assaults by the ISIS.
El Mundo
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Spanish newspaper El Mundo’s headline learn “Jihadism imposes its victory with a bloodbath on the US”, whereas one other paper, El País says “Massacre in the evacuation of Kabul”.
