Americans and Europeans have been told to leave Kabul's airport after warnings of an imminent terrorist attack. Follow Newsweek's liveblog for all the latest.
The group is a self-proclaimed Southeast Asian split-off faction of the notorious terrorist group ISIS.
Its full name is Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan Province but goes by multiple names - ISK, ISISK, IS-KP, ISIS-K or Daesh-Khorasan. The group is known for being particularly extreme, and an enemy of both Western and Taliban forces. ISIS denies any connection to the group.Afghans and Americans eligible for a U.S. airlift claim they are being turned away from Kabul's airport by U.S. forces controlling the gates, the Associated Press reports.
Though U.S. officials said Wednesday the emergency operation will continue to take people out of the Taliban-controlled country until the August 31 deadline, groups supporting refugees described a"chaotic and minimal" evacuation effort.Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken confirmed last night that the U.S. embassy in Kabul is"aggressively reach out" to hundreds of Americans still looking to escape the country despite being told to leave the airport.
For the remaining roughly 1,000 contacts that we had who may be Americans seeking to leave Afghanistan, we are aggressively reaching out to them multiple times a day through multiple channels of communication – phone, email, text messaging – to determine whether they still want to leave and to get the most up-to-date information and instructions to them for how to do so. Some may no longer be in the country. Some may have claimed to be Americans but turn out not to be. Some may choose to stay.
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