Despite the gradual end of evacuations, tension around Kabul airport remains extreme.
US President Joe Biden warned on Saturday that an attack there was "very likely" "within 24 to 36 hours."
"The situation on the spot remains extremely dangerous and the threat of a terrorist attack on the airport remains high," the US president wrote in a statement after a meeting with his military and security advisers.
I said we would go after the group responsible for the attack on our troops and innocent civilians in Kabul, and we have.
My full statement on the strike that US forces took last night against the terrorist group ISIS-K in Afghanistan: https://t.co/hOb6xQ4ZZv
- President Biden (@POTUS) August 28, 2021
The United States has continued to point out the situation around Kabul airport since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in mid-August.
On Thursday, an attack claimed by the Islamic State in Khorasan (EI-K) had killed around 100 people, including 13 American soldiers.
Aware of the danger, Washington had called on its nationals to avoid the airport, even organizing exfiltrations by helicopter.
"This strike was not the last"
The United States began a response against the terrorist group on Saturday.
Two "important targets" of the EI-K group, "organizers" and "operators", were killed, and another wounded in a drone strike by the United States in Afghanistan, announced the Pentagon.
"I said that we would hunt down the group responsible for the attack on our troops and innocent civilians in Kabul, and we did," said Joe Biden in his statement.
The response is only in its early stages.
In a televised address, Joe Biden had promised to "make pay" the perpetrators of the attacks.
“This strike was not the last.
We will continue to hunt down any individual involved in this heinous attack and make them pay, ”the US president said on Saturday.
The Pentagon released the identity of the 13 soldiers killed in Thursday's attack on Saturday afternoon. Of these, five were 20 years old, the length of the United States' longest war, launched in 2001 in Afghanistan. "Their courage and their altruism have so far allowed more than 117,000 people in danger to find themselves in safety", leaving Afghanistan since the end of July, greeted Joe Biden. Their remains were on their way to the United States on Saturday, according to the Pentagon, which did not specify when they would arrive.