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Nearly 200 guests and senior leaders representing Djibouti, France, the U.K., Spain, Japan, Italy and the U.S. came together to witness a Bomber Task Force mission and participate in a variety of demonstrations.
LAST SOLDIER OUT: Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, the commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Kabul airport in this photo released by the U.S. military. Donahue was the final American service member to depart Afghanistan. https://t.co/dkCH1O0eN8
.@CENTCOM spox: US military โconducted an over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation today against an ISIS-K planner. The unmanned airstrike occurred in the Nangahar Province of Afghanistan. Initial indications are that we killed the target. We know of no civilian casualties."
General David Petraeus said that the stage was set for the chaos now unfolding in Afghanistan by the US peace negotiations with the Taliban by the Trump administration in 2018 that excluded the elected Afghan government. | Via @CNNOpinion https://t.co/0ld8u2gyKM
White House official tells @jeffzeleny the pause on flights out of Kabul has been lifted, โThe commander on the ground has issued the order to recommence.โ
Soldiers by the runway at Kabul airport tell me that there are 10,000 people here processed and ready to goโฆ but nowhere to fly them to because Qatar is refusing to accept more Afghans because theyโve reached capacity. โItโs abysmalโฆ someone needs to step up.โ
An Afghan child sleeps on cargo floor of an US Air Force C-17 and kept warm by the uniform of an US airman during an evacuation flight from Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 18.
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I have info of 44 pilots & flight engineers along with their families. They are all in hiding. Anyone who want to help them get out, please DM me. I will verify you first & email their info. This is the time for the US veterans who worked with these pilots, to step up & support.
My heart has broken. Like most vets, I left part of me in AFG. Later weโll debate the failures of last 20 yrs, but today our mission is clear: hold the airport as long as possible and get ALL U.S. citizens and as many Afghan partners out as we can. We will debate the rest later
AFGHANISTAN: Reminder, thereโs many kinds of Afghan those known by the international community because they are educated and westernized. But the other part of the population, deeply traditionalist, nationalist is ignored. These, are recognizing themselves in the #taliban
US officials believe that the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif and Kandahar could lead to a surrender of the Afghan government by September.
A MEU is being sent nearby in-case a QRF is needed to fully evacuate the embassy and act as security if a fight against the Taliban happens.