Anxious Afghans who still wanted to join the evacuated airlift from west of Kabul crowded the airport gates in less than a day Dozens of people were killed in the devastating ISIS double bombing.
Because the flight is from Afghanistan Fearing that the affiliates of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) may launch another attack, they resumed urgently on Friday. More countries announced that they had completed their evacuation, leaving only a few days before the deadline for the withdrawal of the U.S.-led army.
Although the United States stated that more than 105,000 people have been safely evacuated from Kabul, as many as 1,000 Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans are trying to leave. This is one of the largest airlifts in history.
Swedish Foreign Minister Anlind announced that Sweden was one of the countries that ended the evacuation mission on Friday.
“In total, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has evacuated approximately 1,100 people. All embassy staff and their families employed locally have been evacuated,” Linde said at a press conference.
Evacuation work in the UK It is also expected to end on Friday, And the last German civilian plane carrying Afghans fleeing Taliban rule landed in Frankfurt on Friday.
With the often chaotic airlift coming to an end, Afghans continued to arrive at the airport on Friday, even though various countries closed visa processing.
In the airport scene, people stood knee-deep in the sewage, and their families pushed documents and even young children toward the US military behind the barbed wire. As they continued to help people escape, many people around the world were shocked.
Jamshad gave him only one name. Earlier Friday, he took his wife and three young children to a Western country where he did not want to be named.
This is his first attempt to leave. He said: “After the explosion, I decided to try because I was worried that there would be more attacks now, and I think I must leave now.
Another person named Ahmadullah Harawi said: “Trust me, I think explosions can happen at any time. God is my witness, but there are many challenges in our lives. This is where we take risks. Come here and overcome the cause of fear.”
As the evacuation began to gradually end, GenFrank McKenzie, the commander of the US Central Command, said that further attempted attacks are expected.
Despite the deadly suicide bombing at Kabul Airport, US President Joe Biden vowed to complete the evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan.
he Promise to avenge the dead Thirteen American soldiers were killed in the explosion and declared responsibility to the extremists. He said: “We will hunt you down and make you pay.”
After the attack on Thursday, dozens of Taliban members carrying heavy weapons patrolled the airport. The leadership of the organization asked Turkey to operate in and out of the port. Turkey stated that it had not yet made a decision on this issue after meeting with the organization at Kabul Airport.
Before the collapse of the former Afghan government after the United States withdrew, Turkey had been negotiating to secure and operate the strategic airport in Kabul, but on Wednesday it began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan-a clear sign that Ankara had abandoned this goal.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has faced domestic criticism for Turkey’s contact with the insurgents, but retorted that Turkey does not have the “luxury” to stand idly by in turbulent regions.
“If you don’t speak, you can’t know what their expectations are, or what our expectations are. What is diplomacy, my friend? This is diplomacy,” Erdogan said.
He added: “We will make a decision after the (Afghanistan) government clarifies.”
Erdogan said that he had a meeting with the Taliban at the Turkish Embassy in Kabul for more than three hours, but did not specify when the meeting would be held. “If necessary, we will have the opportunity to hold such meetings again,” he said.
The President added that the withdrawal of Turkish troops from Kabul began on Wednesday and is still continuing. He condemned the attack on Thursday.
After the attack, Biden said immediately that he had ordered the U.S. military to formulate a plan to counterattack those responsible.
“We have reason to believe that we know who they are,” he said, adding that he has instructed military commanders to develop plans to combat the “assets, leadership and facilities” of the “Islamic State.”
In recent years, the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan has carried out multiple attacks on civilian targets in the country. It is far more radical than the Taliban that seized power less than two weeks ago.The most prominent U.S. attack on the organization occurred in April 2017, when the U.S. The largest conventional bomb in its arsenal was dropped on the Isis cave and tunnel complex.
It is believed that the organization’s recent concentration in urban areas may complicate US efforts to target it without harming civilians.
Amid growing warnings of humanitarian crises, aid agencies stepped up their efforts to help the country.
The World Health Organization warned that Afghanistan’s medical supplies would be used up within a few days, and expressed on Friday that it hopes to build an air bridge to the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif with the help of the Pakistani authorities within that time.
Rick Brennan, WHO’s regional director of emergency situations, said that hospital trauma kits and emergency supplies, as well as medicines to treat children’s chronic malnutrition, are priorities. He described the demand as “huge and growing” .
