US braces for more possible attacks after deadly Kabul blasts

General Frank McKenzie, head of US Central Command, said US commanders on alert for rockets or vehicle-borne bombs aimed at the airport.

US troops helping to evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule braced for more attacks on Friday, a day after an ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated group struck the crowded gates of Kabul airport, killing at least 60 civilians and 13 US troops. Video shot by Afghan journalists showed dozens of bodies strewn around a canal on the edge of the airport. At least two blasts and gunfire rocked the area, witnesses said. The Islamic State in Khorasan Province, ISKP (ISIS-K), an ISIL offshoot in Afghanistan, said one of its suicide bombers singled out “translators and collaborators with the American army”.