The Latest: Bahrain says allows airport use for evacuations

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The land kingdom of Bahrain has said it is “allowing flights to marque usage of Bahrain’s transit facilities” amid the evacuations of Afghanistan.

The kingdom made the announcement successful a connection released aboriginal Saturday.

Bahrain, successful the Persian Gulf disconnected Saudi Arabia, is location to the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet.

The announcement comes arsenic the U.S. faced issues Friday with its facilities astatine Al-Udeid Air Base successful Qatar filling up with those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country.

The kingdom besides said it is hoping that “all parties volition perpetrate to stabilizing the interior concern and to protecting the lives of civilians and the regularisation of law.”

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— Afghan president latest person on the tally to crook up successful UAE

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

KABUL, Afghanistan — Senior U.S. subject officials accidental that the processing of passengers wrong the Kabul airdrome has begun, but that determination is simply a sizeable backlog of radical waiting to alert to Qatar.

Gates to the Hamid Karzai International Airport were closed overnight owed to overcrowding successful the area, and processing began Saturday morning. It would beryllium astir 5 to 9 hours earlier the backlog clears and much radical could beryllium allowed successful done the gates.

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The officials spoke to the AP connected information of anonymity arsenic they were not authorized to sermon ongoing subject operations.

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WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Antony Blinken says 13 countries person frankincense acold agreed to astatine slightest temporarily big at-risk Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan. Another 12 person agreed to service arsenic transit points for evacuees, including Americans and others, leaving Afghanistan.

Blinken said successful a connection that imaginable Afghan refugees not already cleared for resettlement successful the United States volition beryllium housed astatine facilities successful Albania, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Ukraine and Uganda.

Transit countries see Bahrain, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Tajikistan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan, helium said.

“We profoundly admit the enactment they person offered, and are arrogant to spouse with them successful our shared enactment of the Afghan people,” Blinken said. “We are encouraged by different countries that are besides considering providing support. We person nary higher precedence than the information and information of U.S. citizens overseas and to fulfill our commitments to citizens of spouse nations and at-risk Afghans.”

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