### [2021-08-27](/feed/2021/08/27/index.md)

##### Afghanistan conflict
# Crowds return to the Kabul airport a day after the suicide bombing at the airport. 

A single suicide bomber, not two as previously believed, carried out the attack that killed more than 100 people, including U.S. service members, outside Kabul’s airport on Thursday, the U.S. Defense Department said Friday. “It’s not any surprise that the confusion of very dynamic events like this can cause information sometimes to be misreported or garbled,” U.S. Army General Hank Taylor told reporters at a Pentagon media briefing. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said at the briefing the U.S.


### Sources:

1. [VOA](https://www.voanews.com/us-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal/evacuation-flights-resume-kabul-airport-after-bombings) [Image](https://im-media.voltron.voanews.com/Drupal/01live-166/2021-08/000_9lq39k-1.jpg)

### Changes:

1. Crowds return to the Kabul airport a day after the deadly suicide bombings that took place at the airport.  _2021-08-27 21:06:53 (First version)_
1. Crowds return to the Kabul airport a day after the suicide bombing at the airport.  _(Current version)_

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