A Taliban spokesman said Wednesday that the armed group will allow commercial flights to continue to operate in Afghanistan after the August 31 deadline for international evacuations. The militia insists that for this reason an extension for the evacuation is not necessary. "People with legal documents can travel by commercial flights after August 31," the spokesman for the Taliban's political office, Suhail Shaheen, reported on his Twitter profile. In Europe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated that the end of the current airlift in Afghanistan in a few days should not be the end of efforts to get people in need of protection out of the country.The August 31 deadline that the United States has given itself for its troops to leave Afghanistan and the threats from the Taliban that they will not let more Afghans pass to the airport have led Spain to accelerate the evacuations of collaborators that have been made since the Kabul airfield. This Wednesday, 331 evacuated people will arrive in Spain, as reported by the Minister of the Presidency, Félix Bolaños.
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