More than 9,000 people have already been rescued from Afghanistan by western countries, but the situation at the airport in Kabul remains tense.
A number of people are still trying to escape from Afghanistan.
The situation at the airport in Kabul is extreme.
This news ticker on the situation in Afghanistan * is continuously updated.
Kabul - More than 9,000 people have now escaped hell in Afghanistan; Western countries have brought them all out of the country since the radical Islamic Taliban came to power. Yet thousands are still desperately waiting to be saved. That night, the Bundeswehr had brought more than 100 people to safety with another flight, and the USA has so far recorded over 7,000 people rescued.
Most recently, a Bundeswehr transport plane of the type A400M with 181 people on board landed in the Uzbek capital Tashkent during the night.
An A400M had previously arrived from the Afghan capital with 184 people on board.
"So far, over 1640 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan in eleven rounds," the Bundeswehr announced via Twitter.
The US reported Thursday that it had flown around 7,000 people from Kabul in the past five days.
Hundreds of compatriots have already flown out of other western countries, including France, Turkey and Great Britain.
Afghanistan: Thousands are waiting for rescue at Kabul airport - apparently several fatalities
But thousands of Afghans are still waiting at the airport for a rescue from Kabul. As the AFP news agency explains, citing unconfirmed reports, there are also said to have been several fatalities at the airport. Dramatic scenes had taken place at the airport shortly after the Taliban came to power, with people clinging to US planes taking off and then crashing. According to a sports association, a football player from the Afghan national youth team was also killed.
The group of seven major industrialized countries, the G7, and the UN, called on the Taliban on Thursday to give Afghans who want to leave the country safe access to the airport.
The UN warned against the systematic persecution of Afghan local NATO forces, and the Taliban kept “priority lists” for arrests.
However, the USA assured on Thursday that access to the airport had improved.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said "the process is working".
The US State Department also referred to "productive talks" with the Taliban.
Afghanistan: Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas still under fire
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) was meanwhile under pressure because of the misjudgment he himself admitted to the situation in Afghanistan, which led to the extremely risky evacuation of the Bundeswehr in Kabul. Vice-Chancellor and SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz took him under protection, Maas was "the wrong address". Also, it is now mainly about the evacuation mission, he told the
Rheinische Post
.
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet also opposed short-term personnel consequences. "We have to
clear up the
mistakes, but not in the midst of a dangerous mission by the Bundeswehr to save human lives," he emphasized in the
Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung
. Laschet also called for a direct dialogue with the Taliban to help people who wanted to get out of Afghanistan.
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