A Taliban official said today, Thursday, that the movement’s guards continue to protect civilians outside Kabul airport, but that Western forces must abide by the deadline for the completion of evacuations by the end of this month.
The official said, according to what “Reuters” quoted him: “Our guards are also risking their lives at Kabul airport, and they are also facing a threat from ISIS.”
Earlier, a diplomat from a NATO member country in the Afghan capital, Kabul, said that the movement The Taliban have pledged security outside Kabul airport, but intelligence reports of an imminent threat from ISIS cannot be ignored.
After US and British warnings, Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne announced that there is a high threat of a terrorist attack near Kabul Airport, as Canberra urged its citizens and those who have them Entry visa for Australia to stay away from the region.
The US Embassy in Kabul, through a security warning, advised Americans not to go to Kabul Airport. It also called on Americans already at the airport gates to leave immediately.
in what CNN reported that Washington had received information indicating that ISIS was planning terrorist attacks in the vicinity of the airport. There is a “high risk of a terrorist attack.”
The warnings came after statements by US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, during a press conference on Wednesday, in which he said that out of six thousand American citizens whose presence in Afghanistan was confirmed, At least 4,500 of them and their families have been evacuated since the middle of this month, and the State Department is constantly communicating with the rest, noting that he does not rule out the continuation of the evacuation process until after August 31.
He added that there are Americans still residing position them to make a decision to leave Afghanistan based on the conditions on the ground, pledging to evacuate all contractors with the US forces
He thanked the Afghan interpreters who were waiting for the evacuation at Kabul airport, stressing that the Taliban had made public and secret commitments to ensure the evacuation.
Blinken’s statements came at a time when Thousands of Afghans are ready to do anything to flee their country, which was controlled by the Taliban, after US President Joe Biden confirmed that the evacuations would end next week.
