Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban

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We’re in a particularly dangerous time right now,” Kirby told reporters. “The threat stream is still real, it’s still active, and in many cases it’s still specific.”

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Al Jazeera’s Charles Stratford, reporting from Kabul, said the “atmosphere is calm” in the Afghan capital after a late night of victory celebration. As we continue working to help our allies and welcome Afghan refugees with open arms, let's also commit to stopping endless wars once and for all. Highly recommended along with several other books. It is always great to read accounts of major events written from the view of different participants. We did not get everybody out that we wanted to get out. But I think if we stayed another 10 days, we would not get everybody out that we wanted to get out. And there still would have been people disappointed. It’s a tough situation.” They’re being really tight lipped because things have been pretty tense in the Pentagon over the past couple of weeks, but not quite like this though,” she said, reporting from Washington DC.This is a very very tense time for the US military just trying to get everyone safely out.” An US Air Force aircraft takes off from the airport in Kabul on August 30, 2021 [Aamir Qureshi/AFP] As the plane controller took my details, I saw a young girl behind him, drawing with crayons. "She was wandering around the airfield," he said, "and we can't find her parents. So she may well have been thrown over the wall." Nobody wants to see that happen. But you know what else we didn’t want to see happen? We didn’t want to see happen, what we believe to be a very real, a very specific and a very imminent threat to the Hamid Karzai International Airport and to our troops, operating at the airport as well as civilians around it and in it,” Kirby said. Those killed ranged in age from two to 40 [Ali M Latifi/Al Jazeera]

Maas is on a trip to Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Qatar, among other to find ways to evacuate these people, either by plane, if Kabul airport can be kept open after NATO withdraws or overland to neighbouring countries. He later added: "In 14 days over 15,000 people have been airlifted on over 165 flights. We should be proud of our armed forces, welcoming to those coming for a better life, and sad for those left behind. The spokesman of the Taliban government, Zabihullah Mujahid, and his troops are reportedly entering Kabul Airport, where he is expected to hold a press conference.

Taliban spokesman to hold press conference at Kabul airport

It is worth noting that the Taliban has said that civilians will be able to come and go as they please. This essentially puts it in writing lets the Taliban know that the international community plans to hold them to that commitment by enshrining it in international law,” she added.