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Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
The evacuation was completed on August 30, one day before a deadline agreed upon with the Taliban. [31] US embassy staff arriving in Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar from Afghanistan on 15 August 2021 A C-17 evacuating 823 passengers out of Kabul on 15 August
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [ 3 ] [ 14 ] [ 4 ] the ...
The evacuation of American citizens and others from Afghanistan didn’t end with the departure of the last U.S. troops on Aug. 30, but it did slow to a trickle. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people ...
Gold Star families of the American service members killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack demanded answers from President Joe Biden and his administration.
Operation Allies Refuge was an evacuation effort carried out by the United States during the 2021 Taliban offensive.It took place in the final weeks of the War in Afghanistan and saw the airlifting of certain at-risk Afghan civilians (particularly coalition-allied interpreters), employees of the American embassy in Kabul, and other prospective applicants for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV).
On 29 August 2021, an unmanned drone attack by the United States killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, including 7 children.The U.S. initially said that the vehicle targeted in the strike had visited an Islamic State safe house and that there had been several secondary explosions, implying there had been explosives at the scene.