The terror group Isis has claimed responsibility for a deadly terror attack on Kabul airport today.
At least 60 people, including 12 American troops, are thought to have died in twin blasts.
A spokesman for the group circulated a statement via its Amaq news agency saying that they had carried out the attack on the Abbey Gate.
He shared a photo of a fighter posing with a gun while raising one finger in a prayer symbol, saying this was the man who detonated a bomb in a suicide attack.
They did not mention the second attack next to the Baron Hotel.
A US official previously said the attack was believed to have been carried out by the Islamic State group.
The IS affiliate in Afghanistan is far more radical than the Taliban, who recently took control of the country and have condemned the attack.
Tory MP Tom Tugendhat, who chairs the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, said the West now has no say over the future of Afghanistan.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4, he said: ‘This is what defeat looks like.
‘Defeat is when you don’t control any of the process anymore and if you are lucky you just about get out with your lives and a bit of your equipment and that’s what we are doing at the moment.’
Mr Tugendhat – a former Territorial Army soldier who served in Afghanistan – said western powers had to ensure they had not thrown ‘a tonne of fuel’ over the ambitions of other terrorist groups by withdrawing from Afghanistan.
‘The reality is there are many either groups that have drawn inspiration from this – Al-Shabaab in the Horn of Africa, Boko Haram in Nigeria, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb in Mali,’ he said.
‘We need to be making absolutely certain that what we haven’t just done is thrown a tonne of fuel on to the smouldering embers of a very vicious fire.’
More follows.