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The airlift to remove
foreigners and civilians at risk
from
Afghanistan
under the new
Taliban
regime
entered its final phase this Sunday, just three days after the completion of the US withdrawal from that country.
The vast majority of countries have ended their operations at the
Hamid Karzai
International Airport
and several acknowledge that they have not been able to secure all the planned people.
Since August 14, the eve of
Kabul's fall
to the Taliban, some
112,000 foreigners and Afghans
have been
evacuated.
7.25
UK evacuated all its troops from Afghanistan, but leaves hundreds of Afghans behind
The United Kingdom concluded its evacuation operation from
Afghanistan on
Saturday
after the departure of a flight with its last soldiers in the country and said it regretted that it had not been able to remove hundreds of Afghan collaborators.
The Defense Ministry tweeted that "a final flight carrying British Armed Forces personnel has left
Kabul," a
message accompanied by a photograph of tired-looking soldiers boarding the plane.
Hours earlier, the UK had sent one last plane to
evacuate civilians from Afghanistan
, and spent its last efforts pulling out the remaining diplomatic and military personnel before
the August 31 deadline
for the withdrawal of US troops.
Reports Afp.
7.20 High risk of a new attack at the Kabul airport three days after leaving the US
The US embassy in Kabul warned this Saturday of
"credible" and "specific" threats
near the
Kabul
airport
,
and asked its citizens to leave the air "immediately".
The embassy announcement comes after US President
Joe Biden
warned that it is "
highly probable"
that,
in the next 24 to 36 hours,
there will be another
terrorist attack
against
the Kabul airport,
which has already suffered an attack. Thursday with dozens of dead, including 13 US soldiers.
Efe reports.
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