Afghan Evacuation Flights Restart After Deadly ISIS Suicide Bombings

The attacks targeted US forces, but hit hardest the mass of people fearing life under the Taliban who converged on the airport in a desperate bid to board a flight out.

Last-ditch evacuation flights took off from Kabul airport on Friday, a day after twin suicide bombings on crowds trying to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan killed at least 72 people, including 13 US servicemen. The bombings, claimed by the ISIS group, injected further panic into the final days of an already frenzied US-led airlift. The attacks targeted US forces, but hit hardest the mass of people fearing life under the Taliban who converged on the airport in a desperate bid to board a flight out. At least 72 people among the crowd were killed, as well as the 13 American troops, according to various authorities.