The Latest: Stark warnings of potential Kabul airport attack

The British, French and Danish militaries person fixed stark warnings astir the information concern astatine the Kabul airport, wherever Afghan civilians are scrambling to evacuate up of the Aug. 31 deadline for overseas troops to permission Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

British Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told the BBC connected Thursday determination was ”very, precise credible reporting of an imminent attack” astatine the airport. Other warnings emerged astir a imaginable menace from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate, which apt has seen its ranks boosted by the Taliban freeing prisoners crossed the country.

Heappey conceded that radical are hopeless to permission and “there is an appetite by galore successful the queue to instrumentality their chances, but the reporting of this menace is precise credible so and determination is simply a existent imminence to it.”

French Prime Minister Jean Castex told French vigor RTL connected Thursday that “from time evening onwards, we are not capable to evacuate radical from the Kabul airport” owed to the Aug. 31 American withdrawal.

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Meanwhile, Danish defence curate Trine Bramsen bluntly warned: “It is nary longer harmless to alert successful oregon retired of Kabul.” Denmark’s past flight, carrying 90 radical positive soldiers and diplomats, already had near Kabul.

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MORE ON AFGHANISTAN:

— Poland, Belgium extremity Afghan evacuation arsenic timepiece ticks down

— US says 1,500 Americans whitethorn inactive await Kabul evacuation

— 2 US lawmakers’ Kabul trip prompts questions, criticism

— Immigrant families from San Diego area stuck successful Afghanistan

— Find much AP sum astatine https://apnews.com/hub/afghanistan

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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:

BERLIN — The German service says it has sent different subject transport level to Kabul to evacuate further radical from the Afghan capital.

The service tweeted that the level departed from Tashkent Thursday morning.

Altogether, the German army, oregon Bundeswehr, has airlifted 5,193 radical retired of Kabul, 539 of those connected Wednesday.

The defence ministry tweeted that, “We could already assistance many. We volition evacuate until the past second.”

Government officials person not said erstwhile precisely the German evacuation ngo is going to extremity but it is expected that the state volition halt evacuating radical with subject planes up of the Americans’ pullout day of August 31.

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WARSAW, Poland -- Poland’s premier curate said that the state has evacuated implicit 900 Afghan citizens, arsenic the state prepared to extremity its evacuation ngo aboriginal Thursday.

“The evacuation enactment from Afghanistan ends today,” said Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki astatine a quality league successful Warsaw.

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Another authorities official, Michal Dworczyk, said that a full of 44 flights were made transporting implicit 1,100 people. More than 900 of them are Afghans who person cooperated with Poland for years. He said the past transport with civilians from Afghanistan would onshore successful Poland connected Thursday morning.

The Afghan ambassador to Poland, Tahir Qadiry, besides spoke astatine the quality conference, expressing his acknowledgment to the Polish authorities and the Polish radical and voicing anticipation that the evacuated Afghan citizens volition beryllium capable to instrumentality location 1 day.

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ISTANBUL — Turkish civilian technicians could assistance run Kabul airdrome aft the withdrawal of planetary troops from Afghanistan, a elder Turkish authoritative said Thursday.

Ibrahim Kalin, spokesperson for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said talks with the Taliban were underway to find the cognition of Hamid Karzai International Airport.

“We tin proceed the cognition of the airdrome determination adjacent aft our troops withdraw,” Kalin told broadcaster NTV. “Our civilian experts tin supply enactment for the airdrome and negotiations regarding this are continuing.”

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Turkey announced its troops had begun to permission Kabul, wherever they person been helping defender the airport, connected Wednesday evening. Kalin said the unit withdrawal would beryllium completed wrong 36 hours.

Prior to the Taliban taking Kabul connected Aug. 15, NATO subordinate Turkey had offered to unafraid and run the airdrome pursuing the U.S. withdrawal.

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