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Gates at kabul airport. basically i can provide you a little bit of a scene setter of what's been going on at kabul airport. the first thing is this threat. this has been -- there's been a perfect sicht threat since late last week. and it is specific to isis, that isis had interest, was planning to, was trying to attack kabul airport and specifically attack westerners, americans and potentially afghan civilians who were trying to get to the airport to get on these evacuation flights. you have seen over the last week these crowds outside many of these gates, and the concern was that among those...

Take to him immediately. think we have what we need. let's talk about the threat streams. very real threat streams. what we would call tactical. imminent. they range from rocket attacks. they would like to lob a rocket in there. we have good protection against that. we have our anti-rocket and mortar system, the gun systems that you've been familiar with. they're effective against these kinds of attacks. we are well-positioned around the boundary and we would be in good shape should that attack occur. we know that they aim to get a suicide vehicle in the they can from a small vehicle to a larg...

Dialogue with the secretary. if i need anything else, i'll be talking to him immediately. i think we have what we need to protect ourselves. let's talk about the threats. so very, very real threats. very tactical. that means imminent, could occur at any moment. they range from rocket attacks. they like to lob a rocket in there if they could. we have good protection against that. we have our anti-locket and mortar system, the gun systems that have been out there are very familiar with. they're effective against the kinds of attacks. the we're well positioned. and we feel we'll be in good shape ...

0 >> officials believe isis-k was behind the attacks, but they're still working to confirm that. the state department had been warning for days of a terror attack at the airport. we have reporters standing by. let's start with barbara starr at the pentagon. what do we know about these military members who were killed and what we're expected to hear from the pentagon? >> in just a very short while we are expecting to hear from general frank mckenzie, the head of the u.s. central command which oversees military operations in the gulf, the middle east, afghanistan. we expect to hear from him. i s...

Mission in afghanistan released a report saying that most civilian deaths in the 1st half of the year were caused by afghan forces and their international allies the report was apparently referring to civilians killed during afghan and u.s. military operations against insurgents. the bloodshed is expected to intensify now that official campaigning for afghanistan's presidential election is underway on sunday just hours after incumbent. traffic danny kicked off his campaign at least 20 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a suicide attacker and gunman targeted the capitol office of ...