Taliban Fighters Enter Kabul As Helicopters Land At U.S. Embassy

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Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of Kabul on Sunday while panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy in the Afghan capital as the militants' further tightened their grip on the country.

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https://www.npr.org/2021/08/15/102780686...bul-to-the-east

When finally the German paratroopers will arrive next week, it will probably be too late.

Taliban entering Kabul 'from all sides'

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The rapid collapse of government forces has left President Ashraf Ghani under growing pressure to resign.

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https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-asia-58219963

German airforce says second evacuation aircraft en route to Kabul

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A second German military aircraft is en route to Kabul to evacuate German citizens and Afghan helpers stranded there, an airforce spokesman told Reuters on Monday.

A first A400M transport plane had left early in the morning from the air base in Wunstorf in northern Germany. The aircraft are supposed to shuttle between Kabul and the Uzbek capital of Tashkent in order to rescue as many people as they can, according to security sources.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/german-ai...-080833388.html

And where are those German Airforce (Luftwaffe) planes now?