Deadly Firefight At Kabul Airport Amid Evacuations

chaos at cobbles airport a crush of thousands desperate to get out 20 people were killed around the airport in the last week including one overnight during a deadly fire fight involving u.s forces after president biden announced the acceleration of evacuations ahead of the august 31st deadline the taliban is calling that a red line saying there will be consequences if troops stay longer the u.s embassy which has moved to the airport now telling those who aren't eligible for evacuation to stay away if you do not have approval for a flight you should leave the area surrounding the airport immediately the taliban known for its brutality and misogyny releasing its own images of forces patrolling the streets of kabul what it says are girls going to school but the clock is ticking for international troops trying to get people out 26 countries are helping in the effort getting nearly 17 000 evacuees to eight transport hubs including one at germany's ramstein air base these people have been through a massive ordeal many of them are american citizens and some of them are very angry they say they've been abandoned by the us government among the taliban khabib muhammad sharzai is a u.s citizen who was living in afghanistan i'm completely angry because they could have managed this much better way on one evacuation flight a glimmer of hope an afghan refugee went into labor giving birth on the tarmac she was understandably quite scared i was just trying to be like eye contact like you got this mama and trying to reassure her that the team here knew what they were doing and that she had landed safely in germany a moment of humanity amid so much anguish matt what does the backlog look like where you are in germany i'll just give you a sense lester 39 flights loaded with evacuees have landed here and so far only two have taken off and as you know commercial flights are part of this effort and we've seen delta and united jets on the tarmac and at least one of those has landed this afternoon at dulles airport thanks for watching our youtube channel follow today's top stories and breaking news by downloading the nbc news app

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Published: Mon Aug 23 2021