(Bloomberg) – Taliban fighters surrounded Afghanistan’s foreign airport with security checkpoints, raising fears that the organization would prevent citizens from leaving the country after the collapse of the U. S. -backed government.
Checkpoints at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, the last position under U. S. control, only serve to provide security and prevent other people from rushing after several other people were killed in chaotic scenes on Monday, according to a senior Taliban official. he had said that the Taliban had cordoned off the airport and only members of the foreign community were passing by.
Iran has said it will ban Afghans from entering its eastern border, increasing instability in Afghanistan and efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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Iran closes the border to Afghans who propose “stabilization” (6:27 a. m. ET)
Iran has said it will ban Afghans from crossing the country’s border, reversing an earlier commitment to temporarily space out others fleeing the Taliban.
Hossein Ghassemi, the Interior Ministry’s deputy for border affairs, said security forces were ordered to send migrants back to the border “as Afghanistan’s internal scenario stabilizes,” and to restrict Covid-19, the semi-official report of Iranian students. . News Agency Report. – Arsalan Shahla
Germany approves the deployment of six hundred soldiers to assist in the evacuation (5:25 a. m. ET)
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cupboard on Wednesday approved the deployment of up to six hundred soldiers to aid the ongoing evacuations from Kabul.
The last German army plane left Afghanistan with another 176 people on board, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, “Chris Reiter,” said on Twitter.
Johnson of the United Kingdom rejects the request for an investigation into the withdrawal of troops (4:57 a. m. ET)
In an emergency debate in Parliament in London, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the Taliban were allowing evacuations to continue and rejected a call for an independent investigation into the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan.
“We have to treat the global as it is, settle for what we’ve accomplished and what we haven’t accomplished,” Johnson said. “Our quick focus will have to be on those to whom we have direct obligations. “
The UK is evacuating a group of Britons and Afghans. “Kitty Donaldson”.
Afghanistan’s cash is largely outside the Taliban’s success, according to Ahmady (3:50 a. m. ET)
Afghanistan’s foreign reserves are unavailable to the Taliban after the United States froze the assets of the country’s central bank, Ajmal Ahmady, the acting head of the authority, said Wednesday in a series of tweets. to put capital controls in place, restricting access to the dollar, he added. Ahmady took to Twitter on Monday to say he had left the country, he didn’t say where. “Angela Cullen”.
The U. S. embassy rejects turkish opposition allegations related to the Afghan refugee agreement (2:30 a. m. ET)
The U. S. embassy in Ankara has denied allegations through Turkish opposition parties that it reached an agreement with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over Afghan refugees. Such allegations are “completely unfounded,” the embassy said on Twitter.
Anti-migrant sentiment is in Turkey following accusations that Afghans will join the millions of Syrian refugees in the country lately. Last week, a mob attacked Syrian homes and businesses. “Patrick Sykes”
The United States reaffirms its commitment to Taiwan after leaving Afghanistan (11:30 p. m. ET)
The U. S. said it remained committed to Taiwan and other allies, and raised considerations about its departure after its departure from Afghanistan prompted the Taliban to take Kabul.
“We believe our commitments to our allies and partners are sacrosanct and have been,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Tuesday at a news conference in Washington. “We believe our commitment to Taiwan and Israel remains as strong as ever. . — Kari Lindberg
The deadline for Afghan air will have to be extended, lawmakers tell Biden (11:15 p. m. ET)
More than 40 space lawmakers across the political spectrum are imploding President Joe Biden to keep U. S. forces in Afghanistan until they have finished evacuating U. S. citizens and their Afghan allies.
The bipartisan push, which includes long-standing complaints of war across Republican hawks, underscores growing unease on Capitol Hill over the disorderly U. S. withdrawal amid the Taliban’s immediate situation.
“The United States will have to do everything imaginable to safely maintain kabul airport until the rescue project is over and our vulnerable citizens, allies and Afghans have had a chance to leave,” lawmakers wrote in a letter Tuesday to Biden. Daniel Flatley
The House hearing will take a stand next week, in Pelosi (8:48 p. m. ET)
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on Afghanistan with Biden’s top management early next week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in an interview with CBS KPIX in San Francisco.
The United States will investigate the deaths of C-17 aircraft (5:31 p. m. ET)
The air force said it is investigating reports of a C-17 crashing from a chaotic Kabul airport on Monday, as well as the discovery of human remains on the plane’s wheel long after it landed in Qatar.
The Air Force’s Office of Special Investigations will lead the investigation, and the service said in a that “Our mind is with the families of those who died. “- Travis Tritten and Anthony Capaccio
Yellen blocks Taliban from IMF reserves, Republicans say (5 p. m. ET)
U. S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to interfere with the International Monetary Fund to save Taliban-led Afghanistan from just $500 million in reserves, members of the Republican House said.
The organization of 18 lawmakers, adding Arkansas’ French Hill, wrote to Yellen Tuesday in a letter received through Bloomberg News, asking Yellen to take action with the fund and respond to her request by Thursday afternoon. on measures taken at the IMF to prevent assets, known as special drawing rights, from being used in tactics contrary to the U. S. national interest — Eric Martin
Draghi says the G-20 can paint to guarantee “fundamental rights” (2:35 p. m. ET)
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said the Group of 20 is in the most productive position to facilitate “global collaboration” to guarantee basic rights in Afghanistan.
“Italy’s long term is to preserve the basic rights, to preserve the rights of women, of all those who have exposed themselves in recent years by preserving those rights in Afghanistan,” Draghi said in a rare television interview on Rai 1. “States like China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey will be part of these wonderful paintings of global collaboration. “
All the nations he spoke about are members of the G-20, Italy holds the rotating presidency of the group — Alberto Brambilla
Biden’s management knew the Taliban could simply take (1:53 p. m. ET)
The Biden administration knew there was an option the Taliban would take from Afghanistan when the U. S. pulled out, but it didn’t anticipate it would happen that quickly, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.
“We were transparent when we made this resolution that it was conceivable that the Taliban would eventually control Afghanistan,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House.
He said the U. S. was looking to get Americans and others out of the country as temporarily as imaginable and that the Taliban had agreed to provide safe passage to the airport — Josh Wingrove and Jennifer Jacobs
EU to use ‘leverage effect’ on human rights (1. 30pm ET)
The EU will “interact with local authorities” and check that the Taliban respect human rights, EU High Representative Josep Borrell said after an assembly of EU foreign ministers.
“I know when I say this, it sounds a bit like an illusion, but we will use all our power,” he said, emphasizing that the EU had to get out of Afghanistan — Jan Bratanic and Katharina Rosskopf
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