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15 Aug, 5 tweets, 4 min read
BREAKING: #Taliban at the gates of #Kabul

via @VOANews's @atanzeem @AyazGul64
voanews.com/south-central-…
Pinned tweet from #Taliban twitter account: "Oh history, we're back"
#Taliban statement declaring victory:

"The Islamic Emirate ... has taken control of all parts of the country, we congratulate this clear conquest and the great victory for all the people"
#Taliban statement from earlier on their intentions toward #Kabul
Statement from earlier from #Afghanistan Defense Minister @Muham_madi1:

"I assure you all that the security of #Kabul is ensured. Your Defense and Security Forces are committed to their commitment to defend Kabul. International forces ready for any cooperation"

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18 Aug
Happening now: @SecDef Lloyd Austin, @thejointstaff Chairman Gen Mark Milley speaking to reporters for the 1st time since the fall of #Kabul, collapse of the @ashrafghani-led #Afghanistan gvt
NEW: "We remain laser focused right now on Hamid Karzai Int'l Airport in #Kabul & on doing everything we can" to evacuate American, Afghans, allies, per @SecDef

Says about 4,500 US troops in place - no hostile interactions w/#Taliban
US increasingly flow of aircraft, ppl out of #Kabul, per @SecDef

"Our US service members are making exceptional efforts under challenging circumstances" he adds
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17 Aug
NEW: #Afghanistan - "We are continuing air operations" per @USArmy MajGen Hank Taylor, calling it "a Herculean effort"

Says there will be +4,000 in #Kabul by the end of Tuesday
#Kabul airport "remains secure" for military flight ops and limited commercial flights, per @USArmy MajGen Hank Taylor

Currently one flight per hour but ,"The speed of evacuation will pick up" he says
Photo of hundreds of #Afghans crowded into a C-17 "speaks to the humanity of our troops" per @USArmy MajGen Hank Taylor
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16 Aug
NEW: @DeptofDefense says US military flights back in the air, headed to #Kabul #Afghanistan

Another 1,000 US troops are expected to be there by the end of the day, bringing total to 3,500
"It's not a perfect process" per @PentagonPresSec on planning for evacuations at #Kabul airport

"You have to adjust in real time"
@PentagonPresSec says much of the planning & recent tabletop exercises for #Kabul airport did pay off

@DeptofDefense saw it as "a distinct possibility" #Taliban could overrrun the country & Kabul, he says, but that capitulation of so many #Afghan forces was surprising
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16 Aug
Happening now: @POTUS addressing the #UnitedStates about developments in #Afghanistan Image
"My national security team & I have been closely monitoring the situation on the ground in #Afghanistan & moving quickly to execute the plans we had put in place to respond to every contingency, including the rapid collapse we're seeing now" per @POTUS
"We severely degraded #alQaida in #Afghanistan" per @POTUS of US reason for going in 20 years ago "We never gave up the hunt for Osama bin Laden & we got him"

"That was a decade ago"
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16 Aug
NEW: "Significant developments" in #Kabul overnight, per @PentagonPresSec

US troops "working to reestablish security" after breaches on the civilian side of the airport
"We don't want anyone else to get hurt" per @PentagonPresSec says of video showing people falling from an airplane taking off

Currently, no flights are taking off
2,500 US troops at airport - another 500 arriving in the coming hours, per @PentagonPresSec
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15 Aug
JUST IN: "US Forces have now assumed responsibilities for air traffic control at the airport, supported by Afghan counterparts" per @PentagonPresSec "Commercial traffic continues, though it has experienced some sporadic stoppages and delay"

#Afghanistan
More: #Afghanistan #evacuation “Several hundred civilians including personnel & private US citizens have been evacuated so far" per @PentagonPresSec

"We continue to build capacity to expedite processing for at-risk Afghan civilians" he adds
"As we have made clear, this is a narrowly-defined mission to safeguard the movement of civilians out of #Kabul" per @PentagonPresSec

"Any threat posed to the mission will be taken seriously—and any attack on our people or on our operation will be met forcefully”

#Afghanistan
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