Drones
U.S. Says Drone Strike Kills ISIS Bombers Targeting Kabul Airport
Mere ours after President Joe Biden warned it was "highly likely" there would be another terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, a U.S. drone strike blew up a vehicle filled with explosives in the Afghan capital on Sunday. The vehicle was carrying "multiple suicide bombers" from Afghanistan's Islamic State affiliate who were planning to strike the Kabul International Airport amid the ongoing evacuation efforts, according to U.S. officials. The strike targeted "an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamad Karzai International airport," said a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command. "Significant secondary explosions from the vehicle indicated the presence of a substantial amount of explosive material." Earlier in the day, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul had warned of a "specific, credible threat" to the area surrounding the Kabul airport.
'Fox News Sunday' on August 29, 2021
This is a rush transcript of "Fox News Sunday" on August 27, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. A drone strike takes out two high profile ISIS-K targets, as U.S. troops continue their evacuation mission with just 48 hours to go in Afghanistan. JOHN KIRBY, PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY: They lost a planner and they lost a facilitator and that got one wounded. WALLACE (voice-over): But warnings the threat is far from over. JEN PSAKI, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Our troops are still in danger, that continues to be the case every day that they are there. WALLACE: With the clock ticking down, what does it mean for the security of our troops and civilians looking to get out of harm's way? We'll ask White House national security advisor Jake Sullivan about the situation on the ground and the danger in the final days of the mission. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: The Taliban should not be allowed to tell us how long we are there to get our personnel out. WALLACE: We'll get reaction from Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who's calling on the president to extend the evacuation beyond Tuesday. We'll ask our Sunday panel about the latest test for the nation's schools. We begin with breaking news on two stories. But first, the next two days could be the most tense and dangerous for U.S. They are trying to evacuate some of the thousands of Americans and Afghan civilians while at the same time rolling up their own operation. Meanwhile, President Biden making good on his promise to retaliate for the deadly suicide bombing in Kabul, ordering a drone strike that killed two ISIS-K planners and wounded another -- as his advisors warn another attack the airport is likely before the U.S. completes its exit. In a moment, we'll discuss all this with the president's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan. We begin with FOX team coverage. David Spunt is at the White House, but first, Trey Yingst in Doha, Qatar, with the latest on the ongoing withdrawal -- Trey.
U.S. Troops Start to Leave Kabul Airport as Drone Strike Kills Two ISIS Militants
U.S. troops have started withdrawing from Kabul's airport, marking the beginning of the end of the two-week effort to get foreigners and their local allies out of Afghanistan after the country's capital fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15. The vast majority of NATO nations have flown their troops out of Afghanistan after more than two decades although the United States said its airlifts would continue until the Tuesday deadline even as the number of American troops at the airport starts to dwindle. Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan, Laurie Bristow, published a video on Twitter from the airport saying it was "time to close this phase of the operation now." Britain carried out its final evacuation flights on Saturday. As everyone starts getting ready for the next phase, Taliban forces started closing off the airport to most Afghans on Saturday.
U.S. says drone strike kills Islamic State 'planner' in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military said Friday it had carried out a drone strike against a "planner" of the Islamic State-Khorasan, the group which claimed credit for the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport. "The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target," said Capt. Bill Urban of the Central Command. "We know of no civilian casualties," he added in a statement. U.S. forces helping evacuate Afghans desperate to flee Taliban rule were on alert for more attacks on Friday after the suicide bombing outside Kabul airport killed at least 92 people, including 13 U.S. service members.
US drone strike killed 'ISIS-K planner' in Afghanistan, Pentagon says
White House correspondent Peter Doocy has the latest on Biden's response to the crisis in Afghanistan on'Special Report' The United States military has carried out a drone strike against an alleged ISIS-K "planner" following a suicide bombing in Kabul that killed 13 American soldiers and at least 70 Afghans. "U.S. military forces conducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner," U.S. Central Command Spokesman Captain Bill Urban told Fox News on Friday. "The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangarhar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties."
East China Sea: Japanese Fighter Jets Intercept Three PLA Drones Over The Week
The Japan Air Self Defense Force (JASDF) had to scramble fighter jets three times over the week to monitor Chinese drones that flew over the East China Sea and the strategic Miyako Strait that opens to the Philippine Sea and the broader Western Pacific Ocean. A People's Liberation Army Tengoen TB-001 Scorpion medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) drone flew into the East China Sea northwest of Okinawa Tuesday, prompting JASDF to send fighters to investigate its activities, reported The Drive. A PLA Harbin BZK-005 MALE drone then flew a sortie back and forth through the Miyako Strait Wednesday, followed by another TB-001 through Miyako Strait, which lies southwest of the island of Okinawa, on Thursday. According to the Japanese officials, one Shaanxi Y-8Q maritime patrol plane and one Shaanxi Y-9JB electronic intelligence aircraft accompanied the drones on their flights the last two days. This comes as a testament to PLA's growing unmanned aircraft capabilities and its focus on deploying increasingly sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicles.
Researchers Demonstrate AI Can Be Fooled
The artificial intelligence systems used by image recognition tools, such as those that certain connected cars use to identify street signs, can be tricked to make an incorrect identification by a low-cost but effective attack using a camera, a projector and a PC, according to Purdue University researchers. A research paper describes an Optical Adversarial Attack, or OPAD, which uses a projector to project calculated patterns that alter the appearance of the 3D objects to AI-based image recognition systems. The paper will be presented in October at an ICCV 2021 Workshop. In an experiment, a pattern was projected onto a stop sign, causing the image recognition to read the sign as a speed limit sign instead. The researchers say this attack method could also work with image recognition tools in applications ranging from military drones to facial recognition systems, potentially undermining their reliability.