The US government has been in talks
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2025 4:31 am
The backlogs at Al Udeid, alone, worsened so much in the past week that all flights, including military evacuation missions, from Hamid Karzai International Airport were halted for about eight hours between 19 and August 20.
The United States just started sending evacuees to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, which has now joined Qatar and Kuwait among foreign countries where the U.S. military is carrying evacuees. During one of those flights to Ramstein, a pregnant woman gave birth and U.S. Air Force personnel from the 86th Medical Group delivered the baby safely inside the plane, an airplane Transport C-17A Globemaster III, a type that has already become inexorably associated with Evacuations in Afghanistan, after it landed.
with several other countries around the world to take in evacuees, at least on a temporary basis. A number of countries have agreed to take hundreds of Afghans, but are still awaiting the arrival of the first flights due to the various issues involved.
As the Pentagon has noted, activating the CRAF plane should job function email database help alleviate some of these logistical issues, while also freeing up U.S. military cargo planes for potentially more dangerous flights from Kabul. This, in turn, could help alleviate congestion at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which has limited ramp space and only one runway, due to the flights that are kept on the ground there, as Intermediate transit points are unable to receive additional evacuees.
Sadly, none of this will help solve separate and lingering issues in getting evacuees to Hamid Karzai International Airport. The situation outside the airport often remains chaotic, and at times fatal, and new security concerns continue to emerge overnight. Yesterday, the US State Department told Americans not to come to the airport unless they receive instructions from the US government due to unspecified security threats. It was later reported that there were indications that the ISIS franchise in Afghanistan might seek to launch terrorist attacks targeting the evacuation operations.
The United States just started sending evacuees to Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, which has now joined Qatar and Kuwait among foreign countries where the U.S. military is carrying evacuees. During one of those flights to Ramstein, a pregnant woman gave birth and U.S. Air Force personnel from the 86th Medical Group delivered the baby safely inside the plane, an airplane Transport C-17A Globemaster III, a type that has already become inexorably associated with Evacuations in Afghanistan, after it landed.
with several other countries around the world to take in evacuees, at least on a temporary basis. A number of countries have agreed to take hundreds of Afghans, but are still awaiting the arrival of the first flights due to the various issues involved.
As the Pentagon has noted, activating the CRAF plane should job function email database help alleviate some of these logistical issues, while also freeing up U.S. military cargo planes for potentially more dangerous flights from Kabul. This, in turn, could help alleviate congestion at Hamid Karzai International Airport, which has limited ramp space and only one runway, due to the flights that are kept on the ground there, as Intermediate transit points are unable to receive additional evacuees.
Sadly, none of this will help solve separate and lingering issues in getting evacuees to Hamid Karzai International Airport. The situation outside the airport often remains chaotic, and at times fatal, and new security concerns continue to emerge overnight. Yesterday, the US State Department told Americans not to come to the airport unless they receive instructions from the US government due to unspecified security threats. It was later reported that there were indications that the ISIS franchise in Afghanistan might seek to launch terrorist attacks targeting the evacuation operations.