Berlin: The German Defense Minister said his country had ended the evacuation mission in Afghanistan.
Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said the last of the German military aircraft and troops arrived at Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Thursday night.
He said that, in all, Germany evacuated 5,347 people from at least 45 countries, including more than 4,000 Afghans.
Germany did not openly assign previously when the right flight would end but other European countries have also discussed their evacuation efforts ahead of the August 31 deadline to withdraw US troops.
Kramp-Karrenbauer said the last flight had contained on Thursday’s attacks right outside the airport and the German commander then made a motion plan for “emergency departure.” He added that “the attack we saw this afternoon …
had explained that the extension of the operation in Kabul was impossible.
The security situation in the field, and also the Taliban decision to not tolerate the extension outside August 31, making it impossible.” Minister said Germany offered The Medevac plane was overhead at the time to drop injured from other countries but “according to my information, it’s not the case so far.” He said the plane, which flew to Tashkent would be given if needed.