Update: the Pentagon Press Secretary has confirmed an explosion just happened at the Kabul airport - the only way out of the airport.
Blame Biden.
Just when you thought the situation in Afghanistan couldn't get any worse...
Remember ISIS? They're planning to blow up the only way out of the country.
Americans in Afghanistan are being warned to stay away from the Kabul airport due to terror threats tied to the Islamic State.
The US Embassy in Kabul sent out an alert early Thursday, Afghanistan time, telling US citizens not to travel to the airport “because of security threats outside the gates.
Senior US officials told the Associated Press that the warning was related to specific threats involving ISIS and potential vehicle bombs.
The State Department security alert also told Americans who where at three specific airport gates to “leave immediately,” without further explanation.
“Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time unless you receive individual instructions from a US government representative to do so,” the statement read.
“US citizens who are at the Abbey Gate, East Gate, or North Gate now should leave immediately,” it added.
The warning came as Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that up to 1,500 US citizens are still stranded in the Taliban-controlled country. Americans have been trying to make it to Kabul’s airport to get on evacuation flights before the US pulls its troops from the country Aug. 31.
President Biden on Tuesday cited what he called “the acute and growing risk of an attack” by the ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan, known as ISIS-K, as a reason not to extend the withdrawal timeline.
Photo: AFP via Getty Images
TOPSHOT - Afghan people climb atop a plane as they wait at the Kabul airport in Kabul on August 16, 2021, after a stunningly swift end to Afghanistan's 20-year war, as thousands of people mobbed the city's airport trying to flee the group's feared hardline brand of Islamist rule. (Photo by Wakil Kohsar / AFP) (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)