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Two explosions outside the Kabul airport Thursday injured at least three U.S. Marines and others, as the U.S. attempts to continue its evacuations out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
World leaders have adjusted planned operations in the face of the attacks, which terrorist group ISIS-K is suspected to be responsible for.
Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. The explosion went off outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Officials offered no casualty count, but a witness said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded Thursday.
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An official told Fox News that President Biden has been briefed about the explosion as the White House prepares to speak publicly about the attacks. A planned meeting between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been postponed.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel cancelled an upcoming trip to Israel, where she was expected to join Bennett for a cabinet meeting on Sunday. The trip was cancelled due to “the tense situation in Afghanistan,” according to a government spokesperson.
Merkel will remain in Germany to monitor the last stages of the evacuation of German troops, which will end Thursday.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, meanwhile, is set to chair an emergency security meeting with the Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms (COBR) after he was updated on the explosions, Reuters reported.
“The Prime Minister has been updated on the situation at the airport in Kabul and will chair a COBR (security meeting) later this afternoon,” a No. 10 Downing St. spokesperson said.
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French President Emmanuel Macron has voiced full support for coordinating with “American allies” in response to the explosions, the Irish Times reported.
Macron is in Ireland for a diplomatic visit, but he took time to speak about the tragic events shortly after they occurred.
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“We will also closely coordinate on the issues to be dealt with in the near future, military cooperation, migration issues and cooperate with the UN Security Council, because in the coming days and weeks we will have to define the course of the mandate of the United Nations,” Macron said. “The coming hours will remain extremely dangerous in Kabul and around the airport.”
Fox News’ Jacqui Heinrich contributed to this report.
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