The lawmakers said the US military should commit to responding with overwhelming force to continued attacks on or around the Kabul airport.
Pentagon said that the deadly attack outside Kabul airport the previous day was carried out by one suicide bomber and that there wasn't a second explosion at a nearby hotel.
The Pentagon said there was one Islamic State suicide bomber, who struck at the Abbey Gate, where desperate Afghans were crowding to try and enter Kabul airport grounds and where U.S. troops were conducting security checks.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger said Friday there are also some 10,000 Afghans who worked for German forces or for other reasons had been identified as entitled to evacuation. But it's unclear how many of those might have found a way out other than on German flights.
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport on Thursday which killed more than 100 people, including 13 US troops. The Islamic State group (ISIS) claimed responsibility of the Kabul airport suicide attack.
Ultimately, the attack strategically benefits the Haqqani network as it will likely speed up foreign departures and prevent the prospect of further evacuations.
A day after Kabul airport suicide blasts, France on Friday said that it had established an 'operational contact' with Taliban to facilitate evacuations from Afghanistan.
Speaking about Afghans who have been evacuated to India, MEA said, "MHA has announced e-emergency visas. These are six-month visas. So they are currently coming here under the six-month visa regime. We will take it from there."
The DGCA has suspended the flying licence of the plane's pilot, Captain Sayyed Majid Akhtar.
Though Saleh did not directly pin blame on Pakistan, he said in his tweet that the Taliban seem to be 'learning from their master'.
Kabul residents said several flights took off Friday morning, while footage showed the anxious crowd outside the airport as large as ever.
The ISIS(K) issued a statement claiming responsibility for the horrible suicide attacks. It said, its targets were American troops and their Afghan allies. The statement also carried the photograph of the suicide bomber who carried out the attack.
The Islamic State Khorasan Province, which is also known by the acronyms ISIS-K, ISKP and ISK, is the official affiliate of the Islamic State movement operating in Afghanistan, as recognized by Islamic State core leadership in Iraq and Syria.
2 suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport on Thursday, killing at least 60 Afghans and 13 US troops.
Kabul Airport Blasts: Two powerful explosions rocked Kabul International Airport on Thursday evening while evacuations were underway amid Taliban take over. However, in a relief, reports say that all Indians are safe in the Kabul blasts.
"Protection of civilians and rights and freedoms of Afghan people- in particular women and children must be a priority," the UNGA president said on Thursday in a note emailed to UN correspondents, Xinhua news agency reported.
"I want to stress that this threat of a terrorist attack is one of the constraints that we've been operating under in Operation Pitting, in the big extraction that's been going on, and we've been ready for it; we've been prepared for it," Johnson told the reporters after an emergency meeting, Xinhua reported.
Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul’s airport Thursday
In a statement issued by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said, "We extend our heartfelt condolences to the families of victims of this terrorist attack. Today’s attacks reinforce the need for the world to stand unitedly against terrorism and all those who provide sanctuaries to terrorists."
Taking to Twitter, Boris Johnson said, "I utterly condemn the barbaric terrorist attack in Kabul in which Afghans and members of the US military lost their lives. The threat of terrorist attack is one of the constraints we’ve been operating under, but our evacuation effort continues with over 12,000 extracted so far."
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