Members of the Taliban movement shot into the sky to celebrate their full control over Kabul after the last US evacuation plane took off on August 31, ending two decades of US presence in Afghanistan and the country’s longest war. North American.
Kenneth McKenzie Jr., head of the US Central Command, confirmed that US troops had completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan just before the start of Tuesday, August 31, the date set to complete their departure.
The senior military official specified that the US managed to evacuate more than 123,000 people from the Kabul airport. However, the Pentagon recognize that not all the expected people could be removed from Afghanistan.
According to the statement released by the US Federal Aviation Administration, the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul is no longer under the control of the US Army. Likewise, Washington affirms that it left the necessary equipment at the airport in the Afghan capital so that it “begins to operate as soon as possible.”
* The Taliban movement, designated as a “terrorist organization” by the UN Security Council, is declared a terrorist group and prohibited in Russia.
