An Afghan woman gives birth aboard a US evacuation flight

US military aviation personnel helped deliver a baby after an Afghan woman went

into labor on an evacuation flight

that landed in Germany on Saturday, the US Air Mobility Command said.

The woman, whose identity was not disclosed, was aboard a C-17 plane bound for Ramstein Air Base in southwestern Germany, the command said in a statement on its Facebook page.

The flight took off from "an intermediate base in the Middle East," the statement said.

It was unclear when the woman left Afghanistan.

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The mother began to experience complications due to low blood pressure.

"The aircraft commander made the decision to descend in altitude to increase the air pressure in the aircraft, which helped to stabilize and save the mother's life," the statement details.

When the plane landed on the base, the aviators from Medical Group 86 rushed to board and

delivered the baby in the cargo compartment of the aircraft

, according to the statement.

The girl and mother were taken to a nearby medical facility and

are in good condition,

a spokesman for the 86th Airlift Command at Ramstein Air Force Base told NBC News.

Medical personnel from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, assisted the Afghan mother who gave birth on a C-17 plane on Saturday.

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An airbase official told NBC News that 6,100 people evacuated from Afghanistan have been moved to those facilities since the start of Operation Allied Shelter, with more flights expected in the coming days.

The Pentagon said Saturday that 17,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since Aug. 14.

But thousands of people try to escape Afghanistan, while the Taliban try to consolidate their dominance of the country.

The security situation around the Kabul airport continues to deteriorate and several people have been crushed to death near the airport.

"Difficult and unpredictable"

The UK said on Sunday that

at least seven Afghan civilians were killed in a crowd of people trying to enter the airport.

Others were trampled, suffocated or suffered heart attacks when Taliban fighters fired into the air to try to push back the crowd.

The soldiers covered several corpses with white clothing.

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The Taliban have promised amnesty for those who worked with the United States, NATO and the overthrown Afghan government, but many Afghans fear revenge attacks.

In recent days it has been reported that

the Taliban are attacking their former enemies

.

It is not yet known whether the Taliban leaders have ordered such actions or whether the fighters are carrying out reprisals on their own.

"The situation at Kabul airport remains extremely difficult and unpredictable," said a NATO official who asked to remain anonymous.

The US Embassy, ​​which has been transferred to the military side of the airport, has told US citizens and others not to go to those facilities until they receive precise instructions.

President Joe Biden promised to bring the Americans home and help Afghans who had collaborated with US forces and others who might be in danger on Friday.

The president described this operation as

"one of the largest and most difficult airlifts in history."

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But the United States' efforts have come under fire for the chaos that ensued at Kabul airport earlier this week, when the Taliban took control of the capital.

On Sunday, the Pentagon said it will send commercial jets

to help transport people who have been evacuated from Afghanistan.

US defense officials also warned of

a possible Islamic State threat against the airport and Americans

attempting to evacuate.

The Taliban blame the chaotic evacuation on the US military, saying there is no need for the Afghans to fear them, even though

their fighters shoot into the air and beat people with batons

as they try to control the crowds outside the airport.

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"All of Afghanistan is safe but the airport, which is run by the Americans, is anarchy," Amir Khan Motaqi, a senior Taliban official, said on Sunday.

The United States "should not embarrass the world by saying that our people [the Taliban] are some kind of enemy," the official added.

Taliban spokesman Mohammad Naeem

also blamed the Americans for the deaths at the airport

during an interview with Iranian state television.

"The Americans promised they would 'take them to the United States' and that's why people gathered at the Kabul airport," Naeem said.

"If that were announced in any country in the world, wouldn't people go?"

The Taliban have tried to project a more moderate image than the last time they ruled the country, from 1996 until the US-led invasion after the September 11 attacks.

During his previous rule, women were confined to their homes, television and music were banned, and public executions were carried out, according to the strict version of the Islamic regime defended by the Taliban.

With information from AP and NBC News