The US rushed in troops to protect its own evacuating diplomats and others at the Kabul airport. Biden called the anguish of trapped Afghan civilians “gut-wrenching” and conceded the Taliban had achieved a much faster takeover of the country than his administration had expected. On Monday, a defiant Biden rejected blame for chaotic scenes of Afghans clinging to US military planes in Kabul in a desperate bid to flee their home country after the Taliban's easy victory over an Afghan military that America and NATO allies had spent two decades trying to build. forces plan to wrap up their oversight of the evacuation by Aug 31, also the date President Joe Biden has set for officially ending the US combat role in Afghanistan. Kirby said there have been no hostile actions by the Taliban, and that several hundred members of the now-defeated Afghan army are at the airport assisting in the evacuation. Frank McKenzie, when he met with Taliban leaders in Qatar and won agreement to “deconflict” forces and allow a safe U.S.
He would not provide details but indicated this communication was in line with an arrangement made on Sunday by the head of US Central Command, Gen. The chief Pentagon spokesman, John Kirby, said US commanders at the airport are in direct communication with Taliban commanders outside the airport to avoid security incidents. On Monday the airlift had been temporarily suspended when Afghans desperate to escape the country breeched security and rushed onto the tarmac. The goal, Taylor said, is to ramp up to one evacuation flight per hour by Wednesday, Taylor said. The total included Afghans who have applied for Special Immigrant Visas and third-country nationals, he said. William Taylor told a Pentagon news conference.
Overnight at the airport, nine Air Force C-17 transport planes arrived with equipment and about 1,000 troops, and seven C-17s took off with 700-800 civilian evacuees, including 165 Americans, Army Maj. WASHINGTON: The US military is coordinating with the Taliban while accelerating the airlift of Americans and Afghan allies from the Kabul airport, and also bringing in additional US troops in a scramble to complete the evacuation in two weeks, Pentagon officials said Tuesday.
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