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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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