{"id":50696,"date":"2021-08-27T19:06:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T19:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/27\/11-marines-killed-in-thursday-attack-in-afghanistan-marine-corps-confirms\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:52:18","slug":"11-marines-killed-in-thursday-attack-in-afghanistan-marine-corps-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2021\/08\/27\/11-marines-killed-in-thursday-attack-in-afghanistan-marine-corps-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Marines killed in Thursday attack in Afghanistan, Marine Corps confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/26\/freedom-comes-at-a-cost-marine-corps-commandant-says-after-deadly-day-in-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eleven Marines<\/a> were killed in a Thursday attack on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/08\/26\/explosion-outside-kabul-airport-casualties-unknown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hamid Karzai International Airpor<\/a>t in Kabul Afghanistan, the Marine Corps confirmed Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It increases the official Marine Corps death toll, which was at 10 Marines and reported Thursday evening by Marine Corps officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marine Corps Times has not yet confirmed why this eleventh Marine was not in the initial report. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In total, 13 U.S. service members, including one soldier and one Navy corpsman, were killed. It is estimated at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/newsletters\/breaking-news-alert\/2021\/08\/26\/biden-vows-payback-for-deadly-attacks-on-us-troops-but-will-keep-aug-31-afghanistan-withdrawal-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\">170 total people, mostly Afghan locals, were killed<\/a> in the attack, which started when a suicide bomber approached a group of Marines at the Abbey Gate in the Kabul airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/27\/freedom-comes-at-a-cost-marine-corps-commandant-says-after-deadly-day-in-afghanistan\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP21238660341592.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">\u2018Freedom comes at a cost,\u2019 Marine commandant says after 13 troops killed in Afghanistan<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The families of the 10 Marines killed are currently being informed. Their names and units will be released 24 hours after the families have been notified.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe continue to mourn the loss of these Marines and pray for their families,\u201d Marine Corps spokesman Maj. James Stenger said in a statement on Friday. \u201cOur focus now is taking care of the families of those who were killed and caring for our injured.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Corps is currently informing the families of the 11 Marines killed and will release their names 24 hours after all families have been properly notified, the Corps said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With 13 total service members killed, this was the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2011 shooting down of Extortion 17, a CH-47D Chinook. 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