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The shooting at the airport came as the Taliban sent fighters north of the capital to eliminate pockets of armed resistance to their lightning takeover earlier this month.

Potential Islamic State threats against Americans in Afghanistan are forcing the U.S. military to develop new ways to get evacuees to the airport in Kabul.

There are thousands of Afghans who risked their lives helping the U.S. over the past two decades and are still seeking Special Immigrant Visas.

The Taliban is seeking an unconditional surrender by the central government.

The insurgents have taken 18 of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in recent days, including its second- and third-largest cities, Herat and Kandahar.

Kunduz is one of the country’s larger cities with a population of more than 340,000, and was a key area defended against Taliban takeover by Western troops over the years.

Thousands who aided the U.S. and NATO war effort fear they will be left stranded, facing the prospect of Taliban reprisals.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived Sunday in Kabul on his first trip to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, amid swirling questions about how long American troops will remain in the country.

Still, Afghanistan remains among the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian.

The report comes as the Biden administration plans to take a new look at the peace agreement between the U.S. and the Taliban signed last February under President Donald Trump.

Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield on Saturday, and Afghan police defused seven more.

The Islamic State group said it targeted newly graduated judges and investigators of the Afghan government.

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