America's 'worst loss in a single day in 10 years

The bombings at Kabul airport on Thursday that killed 13 US troops are the worst in a single day for the Pentagon in Afghanistan since 2011.

According to the French news agency AFP, the US Department of Defense said that "two suicide bombers from the Afghanistan branch of ISIS blew up a key gate of the airport and a nearby hotel in which 13 American soldiers were killed."

The crash killed 30 Americans, including 22 Navy SEALs.

Eight Afghans and a US Army dog ​​were also killed in the attack, according to AFP.

Earlier, June 28, 2005, was also marked by a day of major damage when a helicopter crashed in the mountains of Afghanistan's eastern province of Kunar, killing three Navy SEALs.

Other major casualties include a July 2008 firefight between hundreds of Taliban fighters and U.S. troops in the Wanat area of ​​Nuristan Province, in which nine U.S. soldiers were killed.

Fifteen months later, in October 2009, eight Americans were killed in a similar battle with hundreds of Taliban fighters in Nuristan Province.

Allied attacks

There were also incidents during the war when US troops were attacked by their "allies" in Afghanistan.

On April 27, 2011, eight members of the US Air Force and an American citizen were shot dead by an Afghan pilot at Kabul Airport.

On December 30, 2009, a 'triple agent' who was believed by US intelligence to be with them arrested seven CIA officers and contractors, along with two others, at Camp Chapman in eastern Afghanistan. I was killed.