In a video posted by an Italian journalist as she flew over Kabul, plumes of smoke can be seen as workers use fires to destroy sensitive material.
Workers at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul are reportedly burning sensitive information to keep it from falling into Taliban hands amidst the evacuation of Westerners and Afghan nationals from Afghanistan.
The U.S. was pouring thousands of fresh troops into the country temporarily to safeguard what was gearing up to be a large-scale airlift. Massouma Tajik, a 22-year-old data analyst, was among hundreds of Afghans waiting anxiously in the Kabul airport to board an evacuation flight. Even as CH-47 helicopters shuttled American diplomats to the airport, and facing criticism at home over the administration's handling of the withdrawal, Secretary of State"This is being done in a very deliberate way, it's being done in an orderly way," Blinken insisted onA joint statement from the U.S.
U.S. officials reported gunfire near the airport Sunday evening and urged civilians to stop coming. U.S. military officials later announced closing the airport to commercial flights, shutting one of the last avenues of escape for ordinary Afghans. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, whose government had been one of many expressing surprise at the speed of the U.S. withdrawal, told reporters in Berlin on Sunday that it was"difficult to endure" watching how quickly the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and how little government troops were able to do to stop them.
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