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GLOBALink | U.S. troops' hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan brings more uncertainties to Afghan civilians

Source: Xinhua| 2021-08-30 16:31:00|Editor: huaxia

Afghan civilians are deeply trapped in the continuing uncertainties of social orders amid U.S. troops' hasty withdrawal from the country.

Two suicide bomb attacks rocked the Kabul airport in the Afghan capital on Thursday, leaving some 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members dead.

The attacks occurred five days before the deadline of a hasty evacuation of U.S. troops from the war-torn country.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States will avenge militarily the bombing attacks earlier in the day in Kabul, adding the ongoing evacuation in Afghanistan will continue uninterrupted.

The Pentagon said on Saturday that two high-profile targets of ISIS-K, a local affiliate of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, were killed in the drone strike conducted by the U.S. against a planner for the Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province.

One day after the U.S. drone strike on two ISIS-K targets, six Afghan civilians, including four children, were killed after a rocket was fired at the Kabul airport where the U.S.-led evacuation flights were continuing but failed to hit the target.

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