Rockets Attack on Kandahar Airport, All Flights Cancelled

New Delhi: Three rockets struck Kandahar airport in Afghanistan on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.

This development comes in the background of the UN office in western Afghanistan’s Herat coming under fire on Friday in which one UN guardwas killed.

According to the media reports, Kandahar airport chief Massoud Pashtun “Last night three rockets were fired at the airport and two of them hit the runway... Due to this all flights from the airport have been cancelled,” He also added that work to repair the runway was underway and expected the airport to be operational very soon.

The Taliban's significant territorial gains during the final stages of the US military withdrawal have largely been in sparsely populated rural areas. But in recent weeks they have brought increasing pressure on several provincial capitals and seized key border crossings.