US to lower flags to half-staff after Kabul attack

Flags across the US will be lowered to half-staff “as a mark of respect” for the victims of the terror attack in Afghanistan, the White House said, Report informs referring to CNN.

Press secretary Jen Psaki said flags would stay lowered until sunset on Aug. 30 “in honor of the victims of the senseless acts of violence in Kabul, Afghanistan.”

Thirteen US service members and at least 60 Afghans have been killed in two bombing attacks outside Kabul’s airport, according to the Pentagon and Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health.

The deadly blasts came on Aug. 26 as the US and other Western countries raced to complete a massive evacuation of their citizens and Afghan allies following the Taliban takeover of the country.

An official with Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health told CNN that more than 60 Afghan people were dead and 140 wounded.

Eighteen US service members were injured in addition to the 13 dead.

ISIS in Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, has claimed that an ISIS militant carried out the suicide attack, but provided no evidence to support the claim.