Taliban ‘kill mastermind’ of suicide bombing at Kabul airport

US marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport (Department of Defence/AP)

The Taliban have reportedly killed the senior so-called Islamic State (Isis) group leader behind the August 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul airport that left 13 US service members and about 170 Afghans dead.

Over the weekend, the US military began to inform families of the 11 marines, the sailor and the soldier killed in the blast at Abbey Gate during the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan.