Evacuation

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia on 3 September 2021

Putin blames Kyiv for failed Mariupol evacuations

Russian leader Vladimir Putin in a telephone call with the French president blamed Kyiv for failed civilian evacuations from the key Ukrainian port city of Mariupol which is surrounded by Russian ...

Russian servicemen drive tanks during military exercises in the Leningrad Region, Russia, in this handout picture released 14 February, 2022

Russia begins evacuating its diplomatic staff from Ukraine

Russia has started evacuating its diplomatic staff from all of its diplomatic facilities in Ukraine

This 27 August 2021, satellite image courtesy of MAXAR, military aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

Kabul airport reopens to receive aid, domestic flights restart: Report

Qatar's ambassador to Afghanistan said a technical team was able to reopen Kabul airport to receive aid, according to Qatar's Al Jazeera news channel, which also cited its correspondent as saying ...

UK military personnel board an A400M aircraft departing Kabul, Afghanistan 28 August, 2021

Britain in talks with Taliban over safe passage of remaining nationals

Britain has opened talks with the Taliban over the "safe passage" of its remaining nationals and allies out of Afghanistan after the hardline Islamist group's quickfire takeover of the country last ...

A Taliban fighter walks inside the airport in Kabul on 31 August 2021 after the US has pulled all its troops out of the country to end a brutal 20-year war -- one that started and ended with the hardline Islamist in power.

Taliban crisis UK says hundreds of its nationals left in Afghanistan

The number of UK nationals left behind in Afghanistan is in the "low hundreds", British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Tuesday, after the two-decade Western military presence there ended

US Air Force loadmasters, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on 24 August 2021.

Shots fired near to where Italian military plane left Kabul: Sources

This handout photo courtesy ot the US Air Force shows US Air Force loadmasters and pilots assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, load passengers aboard a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Afghanistan on 24 August, 2021

15 Bangladeshis, 160 Afghan students waiting outside Kabul Airport for 20 hrs

They are waiting for the permission of the authorities to enter the airport

A Taliban fighter holding an M16 assault rifle stands outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 16 August 2021

G7 to meet on Afghan deadline, evacuation put on ‘war footing’

Leaders of the Group of Seven countries were set to discuss on Tuesday whether to seek an extension to a 31 August deadline for the evacuation of thousands of people trying to flee Afghanistan and ...

Evacuees crowd the interior of a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III transport aircraft, carrying some 640 Afghans to Qatar from Kabul, Afghanistan 15 August 2021.

Over 18,000 people evacuated since Sunday from Kabul airport: NATO official

More than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul airport since the Taliban took over the Afghanistan capital, a NATO official told Reuters on Friday