Evacuation flights have resumed from Kabul’s international airport Tuesday. Just a day earlier, thousands of Afghans swarmed the tarmac, including some who fell off departing planes in desperate attempts to get out of the country.
The U.K. evacuated 150 British nationals on Sunday as well as "289 of those Afghan nationals who have served the U.K. so loyally in Afghanistan," over the last week, he said, adding that he expected over the next 24 hours "to have 350 more British nationals and Afghan nationals who have worked for us coming out."
Germany, which fielded the second-largest military presence in Afghanistan after the U.S., said it aims to evacuate thousands of German-Afghan dual nationals and lawyers, activists and individuals who worked with NATO forces. "We have a very chaotic, dangerous and complex situation at the airport," Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told a local broadcaster,Fear and frustration for Afghans who helped U.S. forces
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