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Afghan evacuees from Afghanistan beryllium successful a autobus aft the accomplishment of the 2nd formation with 95 passengers astatine the International Airport successful Tirana, Albania, Friday, Aug. 27, 2021. Albania connected Friday housed its archetypal radical of Afghan evacuees who made it retired of their state contempt days of chaos adjacent the Kabul airport, including an onslaught claimed by the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

ROME — Italy’s last evacuation formation of refugees from Afghanistan has landed astatine Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport.

The Italian Air Force C-130J with 58 Afghan citizens aboard arrived Saturday morning, immoderate 17 hours aft it departed from the Kabul airdrome and aft a planned stopover.

Also aboard were Italy’s consul and a NATO diplomat who had coordinated evacuations astatine the Kabul airport.

Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said Italy was prepared to enactment with the United Nations and with countries bordering Afghanistan connected what helium described arsenic the “more hard phase.”

He said that consisted of efforts to evacuate different Afghan citizens who worked with Italy’s subject during its 20-year beingness successful Afghanistan but weren’t capable to get into Kabul airdrome successful clip for the evacuation flights. He didn’t accidental however galore inactive were eligible for evacuation to Italy.

Rescuing those citizens “would springiness them the aforesaid possibility” of starting a caller beingness extracurricular their homeland, Di Maio said successful a little connection astatine Rome’s airport. He said the 4,890 Afghans evacuated by Italy’s aerial unit successful 87 flights was the highest fig of immoderate European Union nation.

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Italy’s remaining soldiers near connected a abstracted formation from Kabul connected Friday night. That aerial unit formation went to Kuwait and the troops are owed backmost successful Italy aboriginal adjacent week.

MORE ON AFGHANISTAN:

— US presses connected with evacuations contempt fears of much attacks

— Taliban occurrence successful Afghanistan seen arsenic boost for extremists

— Couple hopeful for children’s future aft flight from Kabul

— Explainer: How unsafe is Afghanistan’s Islamic State?

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

WASHINGTON — The United States subject struck backmost astatine the Islamic State connected Saturday, bombing an IS subordinate successful Afghanistan little than 48 hours aft a devastating termination bombing claimed by the radical killed arsenic galore arsenic 169 Afghans and 13 American work members astatine the Kabul airport.

U.S. Central Command said the U.S. conducted a drone onslaught against an Islamic State subordinate successful Nangahar believed to beryllium progressive successful readying attacks against the U.S. successful Kabul. The onslaught killed 1 individual, and spokesperson Navy Capt. William Urban said they knew of nary civilian casualties.

It wasn’t wide if that idiosyncratic was progressive specifically successful the Thursday termination blast extracurricular the gates of the Kabul airport, wherever crowds of Afghans were desperately trying to get successful arsenic portion of the ongoing evacuation from the state aft the Taliban’s accelerated takeover.

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The airstrike fulfilled a vow President Joe Biden made to the federation Thursday erstwhile helium said the perpetrators of the onslaught would not beryllium capable to hide. “We volition hunt you down and marque you pay,” helium said. Pentagon leaders told reporters Friday that they were prepared for immoderate retaliatory enactment the president ordered.

“We person options determination close now,” said Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor of the Pentagon’s Joint Staff.

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