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Roughly 13,400 people were airlifted out of Afghanistan on Wednesday, the White House has said.It raises the total number of those evacuated by the U.S. and its coalition partners to about 95,700 since 14 August.Meanwhile, more than 14,500 evacuees from Afghanistan have landed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, the largest US Air Force facility outside of America.Last night US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that despite the pace of the airlift, the State Department estimated that as many as 1,500 US citizens could still remain on the ground in Afghanistan.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/us/politics/isis-terrorism-afghanistan-taliban.htmlNot just the Taliban too. Plenty of party for everyone.
Second explosion reported in KabulA second explosion has been reported near Kabul’s airport, Fox News has confirmed.
Pentagon says there are a number of US and civilian casualtiesA Pentagon spokesperson has said that the bombing at Kabul airport has resulted in a number of US and civilian casualties and was the result of a "complex attack".
Alicia Kearns, a member of the foreign affairs and national security strategy committees, said there had been "many hurt" in an attack near the Baron Hotel, where the UK is processing Britons and Afghans eligible for evacuation.The Conservative MP tweeted: "A bomb or attack with gunfire at northern gate of Baron's Hotel. Worried this will devastate evacuation - so many hurt. My heart is with all those injured and killed."
Saw something somewhere, can't find it now, about an Italian C-130 coming under fire
Here ya go - https://www.newsweek.com/shots-fired-italian-plane-kabul-1623276
However, a government source citing intelligence reports later told Reuters that Afghan forces shot into the air to disperse crowds near Kabul airport, not at the plane.
a government source
The Brits just said they will not work with US forces again as long as Biden is president.
One of the most important structural asymmetries in American politics is that Republicans have a mass media ecosystem that always supports them, while Democrats don't https://t.co/e976VmVieB — Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) August 26, 2021
We just lost 4 Marines in the bombing attack….
Has biden apologized to the taliban yet?