Embassies close, diplomats left as Taliban bear down Kabul

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U.S. forces arrive in Kabul as Taliban continue advance on Afghanistan's capital

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As Taliban fighters edged ever closer to Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday, a multitude of foreign embassies continued to eliminate their diplomats from the nation.

“We have decided to temporarily close our embassy in Kabul,” Danish Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod informed a press conferenceFriday He included that the evacuation would be carefully collaborated with Norway, which shared their substance and had actually likewise chosen to eliminate its personnel.

Switzerland was likewise in the procedure of eliminating its nationals from the nation, State Secretary Livia Leu informed a press conference Friday in the capital Bern.

She included that practically 40 regional personnel at the nation’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, and their households, would likewise be offered the chance to ask for a humanitarian visa in Switzerland.

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Elsewhere, the Dutch federal government stated on Friday that it may close its embassy and was working rapidly to bring a few of its regional Afghan personnel back to The Netherlands.

Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag informed press reporters that the Netherlands means to keep its embassy open as long as possible, however included that it would be challenging if Kabul was caught by the militant group.

Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Heiko Maas, informed press reporters Friday that they will minimize the labor force of the German Embassy in Kabul, including that the nation would send out a crisis assistance group to Afghanistan.

“I call on all German citizens who are still in Afghanistan to leave the country now,” he stated.

Finland’s embassy would likewise stay open in the meantime, the nation’s Foreign Minister Pekka Havisto statedFriday He included that Finland would arrange a charter flight to leave 130 Afghans, consisting of personnel who had actually worked for his nation, the European Union and NATO.

The statements followed President Joe Biden’s administration stated Thursday that they would send out 3,000 fresh soldiers to Kabul airport to aid with a partial evacuation of its U.S. embassy.

Britain has likewise stated that it will send out around 600 soldiers to Afghanistan to assist around 4,000 of its nationals leave the nation.

The choices to leave followed the Taliban took a string of provincial capitals, making fast gains at a speed that even shocked a few of the fighters themselves.

By Saturday they had actually edged more detailed to Kabul where numerous Afghans have actually run away to as the militant group advanced throughout the nation.

Many fear that the Taliban’s stringent and austere analysis of Islam– one where females are mostly undetectable in public life– will rebound, 20 years after the U.S. fell the routine.

The U.S. fell the Taliban federal government after the group protected Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks that set off the U.S. intrusion of Afghanistan and America’s longest war.

Biden stated last month that the U.S. military objective in the nation will concludeAug 31, earlier than at first revealed.

The U.S., led by the unique envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will continue to promote a peace contract in between the Taliban and the Afghan federal government at talks presently happening in Doha, Qatar.

Reuters and The Associated Press contributed.