US President Joe Biden has warned the Daesh-affiliated IS-K militants, who killed 13 American troops in a suicide bombing at Kabul airport, that they face more retribution from Washington.
“We all maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries,” Biden said Tuesday.
“And to ISIS-K: We are not done with you yet,” he said, using another acronym for the Afghan offshoot of Daesh.
Speaking further about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, defending his handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the frantic final evacuation from Kabul airport, Biden said that the US government had reached out 19 times since March — prior to his public announcement that he was going to end the US war — to encourage all American citizens in Afghanistan to leave. He acknowledged that 100 to 200 were unable to get out when the airlift ended Monday.
Biden asserted that his administration was ready when the US-backed government in Kabul collapsed in mid-August and the Taliban took over. But the airlift that began August 14 has been heavily criticized by many as initially unorganized and chaotic.
“We all maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries,” Biden said Tuesday.
“And to ISIS-K: We are not done with you yet,” he said, using another acronym for the Afghan offshoot of Daesh.
Speaking further about the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, defending his handling of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the frantic final evacuation from Kabul airport, Biden said that the US government had reached out 19 times since March — prior to his public announcement that he was going to end the US war — to encourage all American citizens in Afghanistan to leave. He acknowledged that 100 to 200 were unable to get out when the airlift ended Monday.
Biden asserted that his administration was ready when the US-backed government in Kabul collapsed in mid-August and the Taliban took over. But the airlift that began August 14 has been heavily criticized by many as initially unorganized and chaotic.
