Rocket attack on Kabul airport as deadline for US withdrawal looms

The Pentagon is tight-lipped about final operations and has not specified when the withdrawal will be completed ahead of Tuesday’s deadline

A US military aircraft takes off from the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul (Wali Sabawoon/AP)

So-called Islamic State militants fired a volley of rockets at Kabul’s rapidly emptying international airport, with just hours left before a deadline for US forces to withdraw at the end of America’s longest war.

Earlier so-called Islamic State militants fired a volley of rockets at Kabul’s rapidly emptying international airport, with just hours left before a deadline for US forces to withdraw at the end of America’s longest war.