Those locations are Camp McCoy, Wisconsin Fort Bliss, Texas, and Fort Lee, Virginia. Army installations in the continental United States. Kirby said during television interviews that plans were being made to house up to 22,000 evacuated Afghans and their families at three U.S. 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 indicated this communication was in line with an arrangement made on Sunday by the head of U.S. 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. That number is expected to top 6,000 in coming days, with airport security to be headed by an 82nd Airborne commander. The goal is to ramp up to one evacuation flight per hour by Wednesday, with potentially a total of 5,000 to 9,000 evacuees leaving per day, Taylor and Kirby 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. Asked whether the Biden administration recognizes the Taliban as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan, Sullivan said it was too soon to say and that the Taliban’s record of adhering to international human rights standards “has not been good.” officials are engaged in an “hour by hour” process of holding the Taliban to their commitment to allow safe passage for civilians wishing to leave the country. Sullivan declined to say whether that deadline would hold. Kirby would not discuss details of the Taliban arrangement, and Sullivan said the question of how much time the Taliban will give the evacuation is still being negotiated.īiden has said he wants the evacuation completed by Aug. This suggested that the new rulers of Afghanistan, who swept to power after 20 years of war against the U.S.-supported Kabul government, plan not to disrupt the evacuation. commanders are speaking with Taliban commanders “multiple times a day” about avoiding conflict at the airport. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby disclosed that U.S. troops arrived and more were on the way, with a total of more than 6,000 expected to be involved in securing the airport in coming days. Pentagon officials said that after interruptions on Monday, the airlift was back on track and being accelerated despite weather problems, amid regular communication with Taliban leaders. evacuation effort into chaos, confusion and violence. He said “very large numbers” were reaching the airport and the problem of others was being taken up with the Taliban, whose stunningly swift takeover of the country on Sunday plunged the U.S. Jake Sullivan acknowledged reports that some civilians were encountering resistance - “being turned away or pushed back or even beaten” - as they tried to reach the Kabul international airport. Watch the news briefing in the video player above. WASHINGTON (AP) - The Taliban have agreed to allow “safe passage” from Afghanistan for civilians hoping to join a U.S.-directed airlift from the capital, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser said Tuesday, although a timetable for completing the evacuation of Americans, Afghan allies and possibly other civilians has yet to be worked out with the country’s new rulers.
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