{"id":432962,"date":"2021-08-31T08:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T03:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432962"},"modified":"2021-08-31T10:17:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T04:47:31","slug":"afghan-crisis-us-drone-strikes-vehicle-with-bombers-on-way-to-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/afghan-crisis-us-drone-strikes-vehicle-with-bombers-on-way-to-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan crisis: US drone strikes vehicle with &#8216;bombers&#8217; on way to airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US airstrike Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying \u201cmultiple suicide bombers\u201d from Afghanistan&#8217;s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul&#8217;s international airport, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce.<\/p>\n<p>The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul&#8217;s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos that engulfed the Afghan capital since the Taliban took over two weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US airstrike Sunday targeted a vehicle carrying \u201cmultiple suicide bombers\u201d from Afghanistan&#8217;s Islamic State affiliate before they could target the ongoing American military evacuation at Kabul&#8217;s international airport, officials said. There were few initial details about the incident, as well as a rocket that struck a neighborhood just northwest of the airport, killing a child. The two strikes initially appeared to be separate incidents, though information on both remained scarce. The strike came as the United States winds down a historic airlift that saw tens of thousands evacuated from Kabul&#8217;s international airport, the scene of much of the chaos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}