Afghanistan-Taliban crisis Live Updates: US President Joe Biden, who is facing intense criticism over the chaotic push to get Americans and Afghan allies out of Afghanistan, will speak about the evacuation effort today. The remarks, planned for 1 pm, come after days of tumult in and around Hamid Karzai International Airport since the Taliban took Kabul, the Afghan capital.
Meanwhile, the United Nations refugee agency said that most Afghans are unable to leave their homeland and those who may be in danger “have no clear way out”, “The vast majority of Afghans are not able to leave the country through regular channels,” Shabia Mantoo, spokesperson of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told a media briefing.
Earlier today, a NATO official told news agency Reuters that more than 18,000 people have been flown out of Kabul since the Taliban took over Afghanistan’s capital. Thousands of people, desperate to flee the country, were still thronging the airport, the official who declined to be identified told the news agency, even though the Taliban have urged people without legal travel documents to go home.
