Kabul Airport

Kabul International Airport and four other airports in Afghanistan will jointly be operated by Turkey and Qatar, according to the media reports. The development came after both countries signed an agreement with the Taliban government on the management of the airports. They will now send their delegations to Afghanistan to start the joint work on the airports, reported UNI. 

Terrorist group Islamic State (ISIS) has claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attacks at the gates of the Kabul airport on August 26 that killed at least 72 and injured 143. The US has confirmed that 13 US troops, including 12 Marine soldiers and one Navy medic were also killed. The attacks halted the airlift of the domestic and foreign nationals who were trying to flee Afghanistan.

Fearing a terrorist threat, many western countries have warned their nationals to stay away from the Kabul airport, currently swarmed with increasingly desperate people trying to flee Afghanistan. Nearly 90,000 citizens and foreigners have fled the country since the Taliban took over on August 15. POTUS Joe Biden stated the hard set deadline for the evacuation is due to the "acute" terrorist threat by the Islamic State Group.

One Afghan guard died and three got wounded in a gunfight with the US, German, and other Afghan fighters against unidentified attackers at Kabul airport in Afghanistan on August 23. Meanwhile, the German Joint Forces Operations Command tweeted, ''At the North Gate of Kabul airport, One Afghan security force member was killed and three others wounded.'' Notably, all the foreign forces will leave Afghanistan by August 31.