{"id":686917,"date":"2021-08-26T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686917"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:50:53","slug":"deadliest-day-for-troops-in-afghanistan-since-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/deadliest-day-for-troops-in-afghanistan-since-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadliest Day for Troops in Afghanistan Since 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdeadliest-day-for-troops-in-afghanistan-since-2015%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"29.584905660377\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Four Marines killed in Afghan airport bombing<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-736x491-1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234877920-1-1400x933.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tVolunteers and medical staff unload bodies from a pickup truck outside a hospital after two powerful explosions, which killed at least six people, outside the airport in Kabul on August 26, 2021. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 26, 2021 1:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"58.750957854406\">\n<p>Four Marines participating in the Afghanistan evacuation were killed in a terrorist attack at the Kabul airport on Thursday morning, making it the deadliest day in the war since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. ambassador in Kabul told staff of the casualties after terrorists set off two suicide bombs outside of the airport as well as at the Baron Hotel in the Afghan capital. The <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/afghanistan-kabul-airport-explosion-11629976397\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> the deaths of U.S. troops. The bombing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/22\/world\/asia\/bagram-afghanistan-suicide-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is<\/a> the deadliest day in the war in Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/12\/22\/world\/asia\/bagram-afghanistan-suicide-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">since<\/a> Dec. 21, 2015, when six soldiers were killed by a suicide bombing at Bagram Air Base. It is the first combat death since February 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The blast left three more Marines injured in the attack at the Abbey Gate entrance at the Kabul airport. Pentagon press secretary John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2748158\/statement-by-pentagon-press-secretary-john-kirby-on-this-mornings-attack-on-hkia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> the deaths of Marines in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that a number of U.S. service members were killed in today\u2019s complex attack at Kabul airport,&#8221; Kirby said. &nbsp;&#8220;A number of others are being treated for wounds. We also know that a number of Afghans fell victim to this heinous attack.&nbsp;Our thoughts and prayers go out to the loved ones and teammates of all those killed and injured.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>ISIS-K, the Afghanistan affiliate of ISIS, reportedly orchestrated the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Total casualties are reportedly more than 40, including Afghan civilians and an infant. The Biden administration has committed to a full withdrawal from the country by Tuesday even as thousands of Americans and Afghan allies remain stranded in the country.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Four Marines killed in Afghan airport bombing  Volunteers and medical staff unload bodies from a pickup truck outside a hospital after two powerful explosions, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}