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Nowhere from the state department, no actionable, no useful information to get them out of there. they were basically being told like everybody else text message, go to the gate. if you get to the taliban checkpoint tell them you are an american citizen and let you through. they did this every single day they went to the gate. i got more and more dangerous everyday until eventually, like you said, she had a gun point to her head up your the uncle was beaten severely. the 15-year-old struck on th...

Department and were getting nowhere. they were getting nothing from the state department, no useful information, being told like everybody else via text message go to the gate and if you get to the teller and checkpoint tell them you are an american citizen and they will let you through. they do this for two weeks and it got more dangerous every day until she had begun to her head, the uncle was beaten severely, the 15-year-old struck in the head, they were told they would be killed. once the am...

Among the masses at Kabul Airport following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan are 26 Hungarians waiting for extraction, hvg.hu reports.

But that could change. this is a very quickly developing situation. and at the embassy right now, there are still a few security contractors, im told that they will be leaving soon. the u.s. has pulled down the american flag at the embassy and taken steps to destroy sensitive documents, to get rid of classified material, to burn them, to also get rid of anything such as american flags or things that had the seal of the u.s. embassy that could bes in used in propaganda efforts against the united ...

White house and kylie atwood at the state department. were learning the u.s. embassy is fully evacuated. is that the case? >> all the u.s. diplomats that were at the embassy have now left, theyve evacuated. theyve been taken to the airport in kabul. the only folks still at that embassy, theres a small number of security contractors im told, but theyre going to leave soon. in addition to that, in the most recent hours, the u.s., the american flag was taken down at the embassy. that is something t...

Contractors, security contractors who are there. they will be leaving soon. as you said, the american flag has been taken down as the u.s. diplomats left the embassy. they have gotten rid of all classified documents. they burned those in recent days. theyve also gotten rid of anything that could be misused as propaganda against america in recent days, things that, you know, had the seal of the u.s. embassy on it. now, as this is happening, it is abrupt. it is chaotic. but the state department, s...

Appreciate that. we have seen this frantic rush to get american personnel out of afghanistan. the u.s. embassy evacuated. the american flag has been taken off the building. with us now, kylie at wood at the state department and jeremy diamond at the white house. kiley, what more are we learning about the u.s. personnel that remain in afghanistan and how others are getting out? >> rapid developments today on this front. we now know that all the u.s. diplomats that were at the embassy in kabul h...

So the state the u.s. created was made of gunmen, private security contractors, drug lords, dead squads. the u.s. also created a state, largely privatized. most of the basic functions of the state were outsourced to private actors. so afghans were really hopeful for the u.s. invasion and for some sort of democracy instead were confronted with a corrupt, oppressive state and so every day, they were facing night raids, air strikes, disappearances and this way, they began to turn, especially the co...

The exit of british citizens and there are still around 4000 in the country, people like aid workers, people who work for ngos, security contractors, they are putting in those troops for a short—term to allow them to get flights out of kabul. there are still commercial flights in kabul. it will also be used to get some of the embassy staff who will not be remaining out and also some of those afghans who worked for the british over the past 20 years like translators, for example, to get them an...

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