TRIPwire, 1 September 2021 

On 27 August 2021, additional details were released about the 26 August explosion near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, in which a suicide bomber detonated a person-borne IED (PBIED), killing nearly 200 people and injuring many others, including children. The casualties included 13 U.S. service members—11 Marines, 1 sailor, and 1 soldier—who were killed in the explosion. According to the updated information, the PBIED consisted of 25 lb of undisclosed explosives loaded with fragmentation, which the bomber detonated just before he was to be searched by U.S. troops. The PBIED was described as “unusually large for a suicide vest.” ISIS-K (Khorasan) claimed responsibility for the attack.