A spokesperson for the Department of Defense (DOD) on Monday warned there is an “active threat” at the Kabul airport that is still high, while confirming that American soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan to assist with an evacuation will leave by the Biden administration’s Aug. 31 deadline. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in a briefing that there is an “active threat in various ways that we have to be prepared for.” Last week, a bombing claimed by the ISIS terrorist group killed 13 service members and scores more Afghan civilians, leading to several U.S. airstrikes on targets inside Afghanistan over the past weekend. On Monday, as many as five rockets were fired at the airport, said Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor in Monday’s briefing. “We are operating under the assumption that we need to be prepared for future potential threats,” Kirby said, adding that the “threat stream is still real, …