New Urgency To Airlift From Kabul After Blasts Kill Dozens

THE United States pressed on with the mammoth evacuation from Afghanistan on Friday amid tighter security measures and fears of more bloodshed, a day after the suicide attack at the Kabul airport that killed scores of Afghans and 13 U.S. service members.

The U.S. warned more attacks could come ahead of President Joe Biden’s fast- approaching deadline to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan by Tuesday.

Two officials said the Afghan death toll in Thursday’s bombing rose to 169, while the United States said it was the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan since August 2011. Biden blamed the attack on Afghanistan’s offshoot of the Islamic State group, an enemy of both the Taliban and the West.

The officials who gave the Afghan death toll were not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Pentagon also said Friday that there was a bombing only