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Video of 'Apache Choppers Clearing Kabul Airport Runway' of Afghans Emerges Online
Video of 'Apache Choppers Clearing Kabul Airport Runway' of Afghans Emerges Online
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Hundreds of Afghans rushed towards the Kabul Airport – the last avenue out of the country not under the Taliban's* control – after the insurgent group managed... 16.08.2021, Sputnik International
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A video has emerged on social media appearing to show the US military using AH-64 Apache helicopters flying low above the tarmac at the Kabul Airport, with an ARD journalist, who originally posted it, suggesting they were "clearing the runway" of people. The latter are frantically trying to get on board any departing aircraft in a dire attempt to escape the Taliban*, who seized power in Afghanistan on 15 August.The situation has drastically deteriorated in Afghanistan since the US announced plans to withdraw troops by 11 September. The Taliban went on a massive offensive against government forces in a campaign that concluded on 15 August, with the insurgent group's capture of the capital and President Ashraf Ghani resigning from his post. A large group of staff from foreign embassies, as well as Afghan nationals, still remain at the US military-controlled Kabul Airport awaiting evacuation from the country.*The Taliban is a terrorist organisation outlawed in Russia and many other countries
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Video of 'Apache Choppers Clearing Kabul Airport Runway' of Afghans Emerges Online
09:30 GMT 16.08.2021 (Updated: 08:57 GMT 15.11.2022) Hundreds of Afghans rushed towards the Kabul Airport – the last avenue out of the country not under the Taliban's* control – after the insurgent group managed to surround and then enter the capital, seizing power.
A video has emerged on social media appearing to show the US military using AH-64 Apache helicopters flying low above the tarmac at the Kabul Airport, with an ARD journalist, who originally posted it, suggesting they were "clearing the runway" of people. The latter are frantically trying to get on board any departing aircraft in a dire attempt to escape the Taliban*, who
seized power in Afghanistan on 15 August.
16 August 2021, 06:41 GMT
The situation has drastically deteriorated in Afghanistan since the US announced
plans to withdraw troops by 11 September. The Taliban went on a massive offensive against government forces in a campaign that concluded on 15 August, with the insurgent group's capture of the capital and President Ashraf Ghani resigning from his post. A large group of staff from foreign embassies, as well as Afghan nationals, still remain at the US military-controlled Kabul Airport awaiting evacuation from the country.
*The Taliban is a terrorist organisation outlawed in Russia and many other countries
