'We're not taking anything for granted.' Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby confirms that there have been 'no hostile interactions' between U.S. troops carrying out evacuations and the Taliban thus far at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport.
"A number of evacuations occurred overnight," Army Major General Hank Taylor, a logistics specialist on the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters Tuesday."As we speak, we are continuing our air operations, and they continued throughout the night."
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters the government believes people are safe to leave from Kabul's airport, which has been overrun by people trying to flee the country as the Taliban have taken over. The Biden administration has defended its decision to stick to an agreement that the Trump administration made with the Taliban and Afghan government to withdraw troops from the country this year. Biden has also repeatedly stressed that the Afghan military forces were trained by American soldiers and that the United States spent billions equipping the Afghans with tanks, guns and other necessities.
But Biden has faced a sharp backlash in recent days over the rapidly deteriorating situation on the ground, which has required the evacuation of U.S. Embassy officials, American citizens and Afghan people who have helped the United States during the war.
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