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Afghanistan updates: US resumes air operations at Kabul airport

Chaos has enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan’s president fled the country over the weekend and the Taliban seized control of the presidential palace there, all but ending America’s 20-year campaign as it began: under Taliban rule.

As the crisis intensifies, with images from Kabul showing Afghans storming the airport tarmac and climbing onto military planes after the U.S. assumed control of the airport, President Joe Biden cut his time at Camp David short and headed back to the White House to address the nation Monday afternoon.

The Pentagon said that 6,000 U.S. troops would soon be in the country’s capital as the military races to evacuate diplomats and civilians from an increasingly chaotic Kabul. Despite criticism, the Biden administration is sticking by its decision to withdraw troops from the country by Aug. 31, ending America’s longest war.

Details about C-17 flight mobbed by thousands at Kabul airport

In a dramatic video, hundreds of Afghan civilians surrounded a U.S. C-17 military transport aircraft as it taxied on the runway at Kabul’s airport.

A U.S. defense official said these were not special visa applicants, but people who had breached the runway from the civilian side of the airport.

According to the official, the C-17 had landed with cargo and as the landing crew attempted to unload, it was rushed by hundreds of Afghan civilians. The aircrew decided it was not safe to unload and began taxiing to fly away to safety

Talks with Taliban ‘constructive,’ but US still taking stock

While there is no American presence at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the U.S. will maintain its diplomatic presence in the capital city “for as long as it is safe and responsible for us to do so.”

He also said that the U.S. and the Taliban remain in contact, especially through U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad who is still in Doha, Qatar, where Taliban political leadership is based.

His mission to support diplomatic talks last week turned into an urgent mission — “to avert violence, to attempt to maintain order in Kabul, and very, very importantly, to guarantee that the Taliban would not seek to threaten our people or our operations” — confirming that U.S. officials were asking the Taliban not to attack as they retreated.

Like the Pentagon, Price wouldn’t say if there’s an agreement with the Taliban that they won’t attack the U.S. evacuation efforts — but he said some talks had been “constructive,” and that they’ll monitor their actions, not their words.

Evacuations continue at the Kabul airport and State Department spokesperson Ned Price said Monday that those efforts will continue as long as those public servants at the airport are “safe and secure.”

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“We will be engaged in an ambitious, aggressive and around-the-clock effort to relocate as many as we possibly can,” Price said.

The U.S. has evacuated 1,600 people from Kabul on emergency evacuation flights, according to Price. While that includes American personnel, private citizens and some Afghans, he would not provide a breakdown.

Evacuations will prioritize U.S. personnel and citizens, Price said, but will also include Afghan interpreters and families who’ve applied for Special Immigrant Visas, those who qualify for P1 or P2 refugee status — working for U.S. NGOs, media outlets, U.S.-funded projects — and Afghans deemed “vulnerable,” “for the work they have done, some for the things they have said, some for nothing more than their gender,” Price said.

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