“The objective is to resume flights in and out of Kabul for humanitarian assistance and freedom of movement in a safe and secure manner.”Īfghanistan is heavily reliant on foreign aid, and the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have already struggled to get critical food and medical supplies to the airport amid the mass evacuation operation.Įven before the political upheaval of recent weeks, Afghanistan represented the world’s third-largest humanitarian concern, with over 18 million people requiring assistance, according to UNICEF. The source said that the technical team traveled to Kabul on a Qatari jet at the request of the Taliban, and that while no final agreement had yet been reached, “talks are still ongoing at the level of security and operation.” Taliban supporters gather to listen to the Taliban's governor for Kandahar province. He added that the US military had made “unusable all the gear that is at the airport – all the aircraft, all the ground vehicles,” leaving only some fire trucks and fork lifts operational.Įfforts to reopen Kabul airport resumed on Wednesday as a team of Qatari technical experts arrived in the Afghan capital, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN. “They can look at them, they can walk around – but they can’t fly them. “They can inspect all they want,” Kirby said. The Kabul airlift has ended, but a US operation to get 14,000 people off a base in Germany is far from overīut Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told CNN Tuesday he wasn’t “overly concerned about these images” of Taliban fighters examining the abandoned aircraft.

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The US also uses its military base in Ramstein, Palatinate, as a hub for the evacuation of people seeking protection and local forces from Afghanistan. 30 August 2021, Rhineland-Palatinate, Ramstein-Miesenbach: People evacuated from Afghanistan stand between tents at Ramstein Air Base.

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