WASHINGTON: The US military will continue the evacuation effort from Kabul airport to the deadline of August 31 if needed, but in the last few days it will prioritize the transfer of US forces and military equipment, said Pentagon on Wednesday General Major William Taylor, with staff with the US military To the news briefing more than 10,000 people at this time at Kabul airport waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan.
He said that in the last 24 hours, 90 US military and other international flights had evacuated 19,000 more people, so the total number of evacuations so far became around 88,000.
He said one plane departed every 39 minutes.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said we were 5,400 troops at Kabul Airport.