Rockets fired toward Kabul airport early on Monday as the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan enters its final hours.
"We are aware of reports of civilian casualties following our strike on a vehicle in Kabul today," Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
Witnesses told the AP that the rockets on Monday struck apartment buildings in Kabul's Salim Karwan neighborhood, less than 2 miles from the airport. It said there were no immediate reports of injuries. "I was inside the house with my children and other family members, suddenly there were some blasts," Jaiuddin Khan, who lives nearby, told the news agency."We jumped into the house compound and lay on the ground."
A State Department memo obtained by NBC News showed that the evacuation of remaining U.S. diplomatic personnel in Afghanistan has begun, with two planes carrying government employees leaving the country. The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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