‘Do not come to Kabul airport if…’: US embassy on evacuation process

The rush to get out of Afghanistan has led to huge crowds at the Hamid Karzai International (HKI) airport in Kabul. The operations are being handled by forces of the United States, which are on their way out of Afghanistan.

The US government has said that it will evacuate its employees before the withdrawal deadline of August 31, as well as those Afghans who helped its forces during their 20-year-long stay in the country.

Several other Nato and European Union member states are also scrambling to rescue vulnerable foreign staff and Afghan allies from Afghanistan since the Taliban overran the capital just over a week ago.