Kabul: As many as five rockets were fired at the Kabul airport but were intercepted by a missile defence system on Mondayk, a day after the US carried out an airstrike on Sunday night in the Afghan capital on an explosives-laden vehicle, reports suggested.
Several rockets had been fired at the airport, according to witnesses and security sources.
Smoke could be seen rising near the airport.
The sound of the airport’s missile defence system could be heard by local residents, who also reported shrapnel falling into the street — suggesting at least one rocket had been intercepted.
This came even as the United States nears the complete withdrawal of its troops from the city.
President Joe Biden has set a deadline of Tuesday to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, drawing to a close his nation’s longest military conflict, which began in retaliation for the September 11 attacks.
