Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban

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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." In the last couple of minutes or so we’ve seen and heard a build up of what could be celebratory gunfire. There have been bursts of gunfire around the streets here. Over in the direction of the airport itself, we’ve seen streams of a red tracer firing up into the air, which might suggest a kind of celebration,” he added. It is unconscionable that there was no strategy in place to get all the British nationals and Afghans we owed a debt to out. You could be a student, a female newscaster, a government minister on behalf of women, a family member of someone who assisted the US military, faced with an impossible choice – “we could die trying to leave, or we could be killed”, says Malalai Hussainy, a female student in her first year of university who stood for four days in sewage water, oppressive heat and crushing crowds for one of the 124,000 spots on an aircraft out of Kabul. A handful of Taliban commanders who were also surrounding the airport in the final days of the evacuation have their own justifications; one recalls how US forces slaughtered two of his family members. Others have fought the Americans since they were children. We take efforts, take steps from the United States to avoid civilian casualties in every scenario and probably more than almost any country in the world,” Psaki told reporters.

The celebrations here in Kabul have been underway for the past hour or so – the whole skyline around the city here has been completely lit up with bursts of gunfire, although it has died off in the last few minutes or so,” McBride said, reporting from the Afghan capital.

President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and Secretary of State Antony Blinken look on as as a carry team moves a transfer case with the remains of Marine Corps Cpl. Humberto A. Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Ind., during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Sunday 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. He took over as commander of Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division, in North Carolina, in July 2020 and told The Fayetteville Observer that he relished the high tempo of the job. Escape from Kabul, directed by Jamie Roberts, embeds in the chaos, blending horrific images familiar to news consumers – crowds crushing toward a closed gate, children pushed against barbed wire, anguished people clinging to the wheels of a moving plane – with first-hand accounts of the evacuation. As with Roberts’s previous film Four Hours at the Capitol, which used first-hand accounts and archival footage for an on-the-ground accounting of the January 6 insurrection, Escape from Kabul trains specifically on a discrete event: the 15 days at Kabul airport before the US withdrawal deadline of 31 August 2021. H. Collins is a former Royal Marine Commando and, by his account, a member of the last group that flew out from Kabul just before it fell to the Taliban.

Ministry of Higher Education informs rectors, deans, professors and administrative staff of governmental and private universities to report to their jobs tomorrow 31st August and resume their administrative and academic works including making due preparations for starting classes,” he tweeted. A vote for Nigel Farage's lot would put Starmer in No 10, warns Rishi Sunak... but he admits he's 'too busy' to watch the former UKIP leader on I'm A Celeb I gave him a thumbs-up emoji, but I was consumed by anxiety. "Carnage" was not a word I'd wanted to hear. What would happen to all the people relying on me?Since 13 August, we’ve brought nearly 15,000 people to safety, and about 1,000 military, diplomatic, civilian personnel have worked on Operation Pitting in Kabul; many, many more elsewhere. There was no regard for all those people who lived on that thin crust of westernized existence in Kabul,” he added. “They were the people who bought into the dream that we sold them and then they were the people that we abandoned. There’s no other way of looking at it.” The BBC reported that a taxi driver from London, Mohammad Niazi, was killed during gunfire in the aftermath of the blast, while his wife and two of their children were missing. A second British victim was identified as Musa Papal, 60, according to Sky News. The refugees, including Wall Street Journal newspaper staff, arrived in Mexico on Sunday night from Qatar and the United Kingdom and requested humanitarian protection. The adventures are riding along with some of the most professional soldiers on the planet . And of course the off duty happenings that preserve the Regiment's reputation and more . Lots of action in dangerous places and training that just hearing about it makes you ache .