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What to Know: The Department of Defense has identified the Islamic State– Khorasan Province (ISKP) militant responsible for the 2021 suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate, which left 13 American service members and 170 civilians dead, in a recently released supplemental review of the attack's initial investigation. The review also confirmed that a person believed to be the...

What Happened: Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, and Kenneth McKenzie, former leader of U.S. Central Command, testified about the Afghanistan withdrawal for the first time since retirement. The withdrawal was front page news throughout the process, with pictures of mothers handing their children to American soldiers as throngs of people stormed an airport tarmac to escape the...

Update (1700 EST): ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the bombing. Taliban Deputy Prime Minister Baradar railed against the attack claiming that suicide bombings during the month of Ramadan “violated the precepts of Islam.” Update (0919 EST): The Afghan Interim Interior Ministry has claimed that ISIS is responsible for the bombing. https://twitter.com/1TVNewsAF/status/1770790282172227797 At approximately 0100 EST, initial reports indicated that an explosion ripped...

Update (0914 EST): The Pakistani government has confirmed an anti-terror operation in the border areas of Afghanistan. The announcement from the Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs reads below: "This morning Pakistan carried out intelligence-based anti-terrorist operations in the border regions inside Afghanistan. The prime target of today’s operation was the terrorists belonging to Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, which along with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...

The Taliban has carried out a public execution at a sports stadium in northern Jawzjan province of a man convicted of murder on Monday, marking the third execution this week. The other two executions were carried out by family members of the victims at a stadium in Ghazni in front of thousands of onlookers, according to Taliban police officials. In a...