Today, Saturday, Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that large crowds gathered in the vicinity of Kabul Airport amid chaos and intermittent shooting, while a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) official announced that the evacuation process from Kabul Airport was proceeding slowly and risky.

In turn, the US Embassy in Kabul asked its citizens to avoid access to Kabul Airport and its gates due to security threats.

Thousands of Afghans wishing to leave their country are waiting for the fifth consecutive day at the gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport in the capital, Kabul, in the hope of bypassing barriers backed by barbed wire and entering the airport to leave the country, after the Taliban took control of the reins of government.

Foreign forces responsible for airport security allow entry only to those who possess a passport and visa.

Children and infants are the most affected by waiting in very difficult conditions, amid lack of food and water, with many insisting on staying in the place until entering the airport and evacuating them to any other country.

A NATO official acknowledged the slow process of evacuating foreign nationals and Afghans wishing to leave the country, and attributed the reason to the fact that the alliance does not want any form of confrontation with Taliban militants or civilians outside the airport.

The NATO official told Reuters that about 12,000 foreigners and Afghans working for embassies and international aid groups have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital.

Officials in NATO and the Taliban have announced that at least 12 people have died in and around the airport since last Sunday.

In a related context, hundreds of evacuees from the capital, Kabul, arrived at the US Ramstein base in Germany on a military transport plane.

A US official said that "the batch arrived at the base in southeastern Germany from the State of Qatar, with hundreds of people on board, including children and women," and described their condition as good, but they feel exhausted.

The US official indicated that the military base is capable of accommodating 5,000 people.

More similar flights are expected.


American concern

For his part, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby expressed concern over reports that US citizens were beaten by Taliban militants while trying to reach Kabul airport.

He pointed out that the US forces told the movement that this is not acceptable at all.

In turn, Reuters quoted a Taliban official as denying that Afghans were prevented from leaving the country through the airport, adding that the movement is only removing those who do not have legal travel documents.

The vicinity of the airport in the Afghan capital witnessed shooting to disperse hundreds of Afghans trying to enter the airport in an attempt to leave the country.

And the US administration announced, on Friday, that the evacuees will be sent from the Afghan capital, Kabul, to the United States, via connecting flights from several countries, including Turkey, England, Germany, Italy and the United Arab Emirates.

This came in the words of Foreign Ministry spokesman Ned Price, who said that Turkey, England, Germany, Italy, the UAE, Denmark, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will contribute to the flights of passengers who will be evacuated from Afghanistan.

Reuters news agency quoted US officials denying that any plane had taken off on evacuation flights from Kabul over a period of a few hours yesterday, Friday, due to the lack of a place to go, after the increase in the flow at Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and its reaching its maximum capacity, as it hosts 8,000 passengers. Afghan evacuees.

An RAF plane carrying more than 200 Afghans also landed at a military base in Oxfordshire.

Britain continues to evacuate its nationals and Afghans who cooperated with its forces over the past 20 years through Kabul Airport, and London is expected to operate more flights to transport more Afghans after declaring its commitment to granting them asylum.

In turn, the German Ministry of Defense announced that the German army evacuated about two thousand people from Kabul airport.

The Indonesian Foreign Ministry confirmed that it had evacuated 33 of its nationals, Filipino nationals and a number of Afghans from Kabul, on board an Indonesian Air Force plane.

Thus, Indonesia closes its embassy in Kabul.

The Indonesian Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, said that in recent days she had made contacts on the situation in Afghanistan with the foreign ministers of Qatar, Turkey and Norway, and officials from Pakistan, the Netherlands, the United States and NATO.

The Indonesian government had called for the political solution in Afghanistan to be inclusive of all Afghans and led by the Afghans themselves, and Jakarta expressed its readiness to contribute to providing assistance to consolidate peace and development.


asylum in Uzbekistan

In the same context, the Russian Tass news agency quoted an informed source, whom it did not disclose, today, Saturday, as saying that Uzbekistan has received about 400 additional refugees from Afghanistan in a temporary shelter near the Afghan border.

It is not yet clear how many Afghans crossed the border into Uzbekistan, one of the countries of the former Soviet Union, with the Taliban in control of Afghanistan, but the Tashkent government denied that among the refugees were prominent Afghan figures such as Uzbek leader Abdul Rashid Dostum.

The TASS news agency quoted the source as saying that about 650 Afghan soldiers from units led by Dostum are in the same shelter, which is a medical facility.

Uzbekistan said on Friday it had repatriated 150 Afghan refugees as part of an agreement with the Taliban and after requests from the refugees themselves.

Canada Show

In this context, Canadian Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino said Friday that his country is considering accepting additional Afghan refugees on behalf of the United States or other allies if requested to do so.

"We must keep the door open to all possibilities," Mendicino added in an interview.

"If there are Afghans who assisted coalition partners during the mission and also met the criteria for our humanitarian resettlement programme, then I think we should be prepared to consider such an arrangement," he said.

Canada withdrew the bulk of its forces from Afghanistan in 2011, but took part in a NATO mission to train the Afghan army until 2014.


'The hardest evacuation'

In a speech to him from the White House yesterday, Friday, US President Joe Biden pledged to evacuate every American who wants to leave Afghanistan, and indicated that the United States has evacuated 13,000 from Afghanistan since August 14, and 18,000 since last July, as well as thousands On special trips organized by the US government.

"This is one of the largest and most difficult air evacuations in history, and the only country in the world capable of that capacity in the farthest corners of the world with such accuracy is the United States of America," Biden said.

"We will do everything we can and everything we can to provide the safe evacuation of our Afghan allies and partners, and those Afghans who might be targeted because of their association with the United States," he added.

Biden said that US officials are in constant contact with the Taliban, and warned them that any attack on his country's forces or disruption of their operations at the airport "will be met with a swift and strong response."

According to NATO, foreign countries have evacuated a total of more than 18,000 since the Taliban seized Kabul last Sunday.