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August 29, 2021 A new explosion allegedly occurred in Kabul. This was testified by a France Presse journalist on the spot. The Arabian broadcaster posted the video showing a column of smoke rising from the airport area.



According to the local BBC correspondent, Secunder Kermani, a house near the airport, in the Gulai area in the eleventh district of the capital, was hit by a rocket. There is no news of victims for now. 



A little while ago, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had confirmed the risk of further attacks by August 31, deadline for evacuation from Afghanistan. It is the most dangerous moment, he said, at the moment confirmation of this new event is awaited.



For over 24 hours, the Taliban have closed the Kabul airport to most Afghans who hoped to be evacuated from the country. Just as the United States, and its allies, were completing the chaotic airlift that ends two decades of their troops' presence in Afghanistan.




81 Afghan students enrolled at Sapienza blocked


There are 81 Afghan students enrolled at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" who were on the list of the Ministry of Defense to be transferred to Italy but remained blocked in Kabul. The Vice Rector for International Affairs Bruno Botta to RaiNews24: we will be able to get at least a group of twenty girls to leave but none of them must return to Herat 




Afghanistan: Biden and Jill will welcome dead soldiers


US President Joe Biden and his wife Jill have left Washington DC and, aboard Air Force One, are headed to Dover, Air Force Base, Delaware, where they will welcome the bodies of 13 US soldiers killed in attack by Isis-K at Kabul airport. Biden and the First Lady also plan to meet with the families of the fallen, the White House said. (AGI) Bia



Many still await evacuation


Western leaders have recognized that their withdrawal would mean abandoning some citizens and many locals they have collaborated with over the years, promising to try to continue to discuss with the Taliban to allow them to leave even after the August 31 deadline set by President Joe Biden to withdraw from the nation.



Although most allies have finished their evacuation operations, the United States planned to continue flights around the clock until the deadline, saying 113,500 people had been evacuated since August 14, the day before the Taliban claimed the take. of Kabul.



Biden warned that another attack is "very likely in the next 24-36 hours" and the US embassy issued a new warning, early today, for all Americans to avoid the airport area. .



Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said yesterday that the forces of the Islamist group are holding some positions inside the airport and are ready to peacefully take control once US forces have left the country. However, statements denied by Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.



The Taliban, however, deployed extra forces outside the Kabul airport to prevent large crowds from gathering in the wake of Thursday's bombing. New checkpoints have then sprung up on the roads leading to the capital's airport, some manned by Taliban fighters in uniform with Humvees and night vision goggles, stolen from the equipment of the Afghan security forces. The areas where crowds had gathered in the past two weeks in hopes of fleeing the country were largely empty.



The officials also said that US forces have taken every precaution at the airport, as it is feared that ISIS, much more radical than the Taliban, could strike again. A new US Embassy security appeal this morning warns that due to a "specific and credible threat," all US citizens should avoid certain airport gates and avoid traveling to the area.



Hundreds outside the banks, clashes


Hundreds of people continue to crowd out of Kabul banks in hopes of getting some cash from ATMs or their accounts that have become inaccessible since the Taliban took back power in Afghanistan. Some, reports the Al Jazeera correspondent in the Afghan capital, arrived at 4 in the morning. According to all news TV, there were clashes in front of some credit institutions with the Taliban who threw stones to disperse the crowd.



BBC, Taliban cut internet and phones in Panshir


Almost all internet and telecommunication networks in Panshir have been cut off by the Taliban. Local sources report this to the Bcc. Panshir is the province in northeastern Afghanistan that has become the center of the anti-Taliban resistance. Together with Baghlan it is the only area not controlled by them.



Separate university courses for girls and boys


The Taliban Minister of Education has announced that from now on in the university of Afghanistan students will be divided. "They will continue to study in separate classes, as Sharia wants," said Abdul Baqi Haqqani as reported by Tolo news.