Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Friday, August 27th. I'm Axios Business

Reporter Eric Imhandi, filling in for Naila Boudou. Here's what we're watching today.

The rising role of women in the G economy. Plus, the last marine to escape Saigon in 1975

on the evacuation crisis in Afghanistan. But first, today's one big thing. The latest

from Kabul after a deadly blast. Two explosions at the Kabul Airport yesterday left at

least 100 people dead, including 13 U.S. service members and 150 more wounded. The blast

came from at least two suicide bombers and the Islamic State has claimed responsibility.

Most NATO troops have left the country and the gates to the airport are now closed. This

is a developing story so we asked Axios' world editor Dave Lawler to catch us up. Good

morning, Dave. Good morning, Erica. So this is a devastating story, Dave. What's the latest

this morning? The latest is basically that there are still evacuations happening for

people who are inside the airport right now. But the latest that we've seen is that we're

no longer getting people processed through the gates at the airport. It's unclear whether

that will resume. As you mentioned, most of our allies have already ended their evacuation

operations and the last couple, including the UK, have said they'll only take people

who are already inside the airport. Now President Biden has said that the U.S. will continue

its mission, will continue to get Americans and Afghan allies out. But it's unclear if

that's going to happen in the sort of numbers we had been seeing in the previous days. So

it really seems like we're in the end game here of the airlift in Kabul and obviously

the military is preparing for potential further attacks. And so that's a high priority as

well. I haven't heard about the Islamic State taking an American life in a long time. Dave,

what's going on here? Right. So this is ISIS K. It's the affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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