It comes as thousands of Westerners and Afghans scramble to get on flights out of the country before the deadline of August 31.
John Kirby, press secretary at the US Pentagon, tweeted the news and said it was unclear if there were any casualties.
Britain, the United States and Australia had been warning of an attack. They had issued urgent warnings telling their nationals to move away from Kabul airport as quickly as possible due to “terrorist”
British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told the BBC early Thursday there was ”very, very credible reporting of an imminent attack” at the airport, possibly within “hours.” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said his country had received information from the U.S. and other countries about the “threat of suicide attacks on the mass of people”.
The acting US ambassador to Kabul, Ross Wilson, said the security threat at the Kabul airport overnight was “clearly regarded as credible, as imminent, as compelling.”
But in an interview with ABC News, he would not give details and did not say whether the threat remained.
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