The United States and allies urged people to move away from Kabul airport on Thursday due to the threat of a Daesh terror attack.
In an alert issued on Wednesday evening, the US embassy in Kabul advised citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and said those already at the gates should leave immediately, citing unspecified “security threats.”
In a similar advisory, Britain told people in the airport area to “move away to a safe location.”
“There is an ongoing and high threat of terrorist attack,” the British Foreign Office said in its statement.
Australia also urged its citizens and visa holders to leave the area, warning of a “very high threat of a terrorist attack” at the airport.
The warnings came against a chaotic backdrop in the capital, Kabul, and its airport, where a massive airlift of foreign nationals and their families as well as some Afghans has been underway since the Taliban captured the city on Aug. 15.
A NATO country diplomat in the Afghan capital said that although the Taliban were responsible for security outside the airport, threats from Daesh could not be ignored.
