An alleged mastermind of a deadly terror attack on U.S. troops in Afghanistan appeared in a Virginia courtroom Wednesday. Mohammad Sharifullah is accused of helping plan the Abbey Gate bombing outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul in 2021.

A suspected participant in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians during the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan has arrived in the U.