![]() ![]() Uzbekistan’s defence ministry initially said it was studying videos and reports of a plane crash in southeastern Uzbekistan, in the Surkhandarya region on the border with Afghanistan. 21:23 GMT Uzbekistan gives conflicting reports over Afghan plane crashĪn Afghan military plane crashed in Uzbekistan over the weekend, and Uzbek authorities issued conflicting reports on the cause. “It’s absolutely critical that the US use all options they can to facilitate the safe and orderly departure of people affiliated with the US,” said JC Hendrickson, senior director of refugee and asylum policy and advocacy at the International Rescue Committee. 22:14 GMT US immigration advocates urge swift evacuation of Afghansīiden administration officials say they will be evacuating Afghans who worked with the United States, but activists are calling for urgency.Īfghans who worked with the US in Afghanistan are among the most vulnerable segments of the population after the Taliban’s takeover of the country, US immigration advocates and lawmakers are warning. Ghani flew to Uzbekistan, Al Jazeera has reported. The US government has not formally recognised a transfer of power in Kabul and State Department officials have refused to say if the US still recognises Ghani as Afghanistan’s president. ![]() “What the Taliban has to do, according to the US government, is try to form a government that is inclusive, that respects human rights, that respects the rights of women and girls to advance their full potential and that does not try to put harm on other people, whether within Afghanistan or in neighbouring countries,” Jordan said. US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in Doha with a team of American diplomats seeking a political settlement with representatives of the Taliban and representatives of the former government of Ashraf Ghani, the former Afghan president, Al Jazeera correspondent Rosiland Jordan reports from Washington, DC. 22:30 GMT US seeks to manage ‘transition in the political situation’ in Afghanistan. ![]() Last year, President Ashraf Ghani said 90 percent of the population was living on less than $2 a day. Yet, Afghanistan still has one of the smallest formal economies on the planet. Since 2001, the US has spent $2.26 trillion in Afghanistan, the Costs of War Project at Brown University calculates. 22:55 GMT US spent $2.26 trillion on war in Afghanistan: Study Here are the developments from Monday, August 16, as they happened. Later on Monday, US Major General Hank Taylor told reporters at the Pentagon that Kabul Airport is open again after flights were suspended earlier. Senior US military officials said that the chaos left seven dead, including several who fell from the flight.Īl Jazeera’s Rob McBride, reporting from Kabul, said the Taliban has set up a cordon to stop people getting into the terminal of Kabul airport and have been firing warning shots to keep people away from the area. Scores of Afghans ran alongside a US military plane as it taxied on the runway and several clung to the side as the jet took off. Victorious Taliban fighters patrolled the streets of Kabul on Monday as thousands of Afghans mobbed the city’s airport trying to flee the group’s feared hardline brand of rule. ![]() The Taliban has declared the war in Afghanistan over, after its fighters swept into the capital, Kabul, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. After 20 years, I’ve learned the hard way that there was never a good time to withdraw US forces,” he said in a televised address from the White House on Monday. United States President Joe Biden broke days of silence on the chaotic military pullout from Afghanistan, doubling down on his decision as he fired scorching criticism at the country’s former Western-backed leadership for failing to resist the Taliban. ![]()
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