On the night of Tuesday, August 31, the last U.S. military plane took off from Kabul airports, ending not only an ambitious evacuation operation but also a 20-year military mission in Afghanistan.
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The last American soldier to board the plane is Major General Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division. This photograph is now expected to become one of the symbols of the end of this war.
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“Taliban“the country has now” gained independence “and the city was filled with shots and rounds of bullets in the dark sky as the militants celebrated the event. can be read here.
Celebratory gunfire #Kabulairport #Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/behl9ZRPU0
– lyse doucet (@bbclysedoucet) August 30, 2021
Already at night a video appeared as “Taliban” special units “Badri-313” men enter airport hangars.
#Taliban fighters enter a hangar in #Acceptance Airport and examine #chinook helicopters after #US leaves #Afghanistan. pic.twitter.com/flJx0cLf0p
— Nabih (@nabihbulos) August 30, 2021
On Tuesday, the view opens the airport with abandoned Afghan army planes, chaos and Taliban fighters, as well as senior group members who gave a press conference at the airport.
Among the shots of many photo agencies is also the moment when militants and a journalist fell out of the car of the Taliban special unit, as well as the Taliban car, which was once an Afghan police transport, overturned as a result of the accident.
Since August 14, U.S. forces have evacuated more than 79,000 civilians from Kabul Airport, including 6,000 Americans and more than 73,000 Afghans and third-country nationals.
In total, coalition forces have evacuated more than 123 thousand civilians, or an average of more than 7,500 people a day.
In 20 years, more than 800,000 U.S. forces and 25,000 civilians have served in Afghanistan. 2461 of these people died, but more than 20 thousand were injured.
ASV force evacuation operation Afghan in the capital, the last days took place under particularly tense conditions. In a crowd at the airport gates on Thursday, a suicide bomber attacked about 170 people, including 13 U.S. forces.
ASV drone killed in a blow on Friday IS-K “planner” of the terrorist group, but officials warned all holidays about the possibility of new terrorist attacks at and around the airport.
In turn, on Sunday, the United States announced that the drone was under attack destroyed a car with suicide bomberswho are about to attack the airport. Unfortunately, there are reports that civilians, including children, have been killed in this blow.
On Monday several rockets fired at the airport.
“This has always been a dangerous operation, but we are now in a particularly dangerous phase,” John Kirby, a Pentagon spokesman, told reporters at a news conference on Monday.
The evacuation of foreign diplomats, citizens and Afghans from Kabul Airport began on 14 and 15 August, when a group entered the Afghan capital. “TalibanFearful of Islamist atrocities, thousands of people went to the airport guarded by US troops, causing chaos there.
“Taliban“The militants entered Kabul on August 15, when President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The fall of Kabul into the hands of the militants followed a series of Afghan important cities to be controlled by the Taliban within a week. Fighters fast success began with the announcement by the United States of its withdrawal by the end of August. However, such a sharp fall in Kabul was not predicted by the US intelligence services.
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