US forces work with Turkish and foreign troops to clear the area its airport Kabul to allow resumption of international evacuation flights, Pentagon spokesman says John Kirby, in statements he made on Monday.
All civil and military flights have been suspended at Kabul airport due to the “invasion” of the runway – take-off of a crowds of Afghans, who are desperately trying to leave the country after their return Taliban, also said the Pentagon spokesman, as broadcast by APE BPE.
“The US military is on the scene and is working with other troops, Turkish and foreign, to disperse the crowd. “We do not know how long it will take,” Kirby said.
During the briefing, Kirby said that the Minister of Defense Lloyd Austin approved the development another battalion in Kabul, which will increase to approx 6.000 the number of soldiers guarding the evacuation operations.
Blinken communication with China and Russia
Meanwhile, as it became known, the US Secretary of State ‘Anthony Blinken He spoke earlier on Monday with his Chinese counterparts Wang Yi and Russia and Sergei Lavrov for Afghanistan, according to a State Department statement.
Blinken and Lavrov discussed “the security situation and our efforts to maintain it safe “American citizens and vulnerable Afghans,” the statement said.
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