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The Minnesota National Guard is sending troops to Afghanistan to assist in evacuations.

Deadly violence has blocked many desperate evacuees from entering Kabul's airport, and the Taliban signaled they might soon seek to shut down the evacuation.

A senior US official said said that small groups of Americans and possibly other civilians will now be given specific instructions on what to do, including movement to extraction points.

US military plans are doing rapid diving combat landings at Kabul airport to beat the threat of a missile attack, with video showing a French jet deploying flares designed to confuse heat-seeking technology.

Mary-Ellen McGroarty, the UNs World Food Programmes country director for Afghanistan, said an already horrendous situation is just going to become an absolute catastrophe.

Mr Blair, who was in Downing Street when London sent UK troops to Afghanistan 20 years ago, said Britain has a moral obligation to stay until all those who need to be are evacuated.

Child treated at airport hospital and later reunited with father; US military also releases series of photos of soldiers helping children of those fleeing country

KABUL, Aug 21 — The emergency airlift from Kabul of both foreign nationals and Afghans who worked with them is gathering pace as more detail of the desperation and fear driving the rescues emerges. Here is a round-up of the latest developments: Biden says evacuation ‘difficult’, but vows exit...

Meanwhile, the airfield perimeter is mostly held by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne.

More than 2,000 Marines were supporting evacuation operations and security in Afghanistan, a senior official said Thursday, as the U.S. military hopes to maintain a semblance of control to process more Americans, Afghans and other evacuees onto military transport planes at the Hamid Karzai International Airport. Meanwhile, more than 200 infantry Marines along with detachments […]