{"id":652460,"date":"2021-08-16T20:36:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T00:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=652460"},"modified":"2021-08-16T20:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T00:36:15","slug":"u-s-resumes-flights-out-of-afghanistan-after-airport-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-resumes-flights-out-of-afghanistan-after-airport-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Resumes Flights Out Of Afghanistan After Airport Security Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-resumes-flights-out-of-afghanistan-after-airport-security-breach%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=652460&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-842680696.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The United States will resume flights out of Afghanistan on Monday evening after flights were suspended earlier in the because of a <\/span><span>security breach at Kabul\u2019s international airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>John Kirby, the Pentagon\u2019s chief spokesman, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/16\/us\/politics\/kabul-airport-flights.html\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> Monday that flights had been halted due a security breach on the civilian side of the airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Video on the ground at <\/span><span>Hamid Karzai International Airport<\/span><span> showed dozens of panicked Afghans running alongside a U.S. Air Force jet as it took off. Later, people could be seen in the distance falling from the plane after it had already taken off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll the images coming out are of concern and troubling,\u201d Kirby said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At least seven were confirmed dead amid the chaos at the airport. <\/span><span>A preliminary report indicated that one U.S. soldier had also been injured, according to Kirby.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At a Pentagon news conference on Monday afternoon, <\/span><span>Director for Defense Intelligence Garry Reid said the military expects to speed up the evacuations of <\/span><span>Afghan refugees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe anticipate picking up the pace, provided we can stabilize conditions at Kabul,\u201d Reid said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>State Department spokesperson Ned Price added at a separate briefing that the U.S. is \u201cof course prioritizing American citizens\u201d for evacuation. He said, however, that the State Department is requesting that U.S. citizens shelter in place and not travel to the Kabul airport.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The U.S. <\/span><span>moved its embassy operations to the airport over the weekend as the Taliban descended on Kabul.<\/span> <span>The Taliban took over the country\u2019s capital and the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday with little to no resistance after the <\/span><span>collapse of the Afghan government.<\/span><span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the last several weeks, the terrorist group advanced across the country at a breakneck pace that appeared to stun U.S. officials. Many of the Afghanistan security forces that had been trained by the U.S. either fled or blanched in the face of the Taliban\u2019s advances across the country.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>President Joe Biden authorized a total of 7,000 troops to handle the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as the U.S. completes its withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the country, <\/span><span>marking the end of America\u2019s 20-year war in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Monday afternoon, Biden addressed the nation on the U.S. withdrawal, which was widely criticized as botched, and defended his decision to leave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHow many more generations of America\u2019s daughters and sons would you have me send to fight Afghanistan\u2019s civil war when Afghan troops will not?\u201d Biden said from the White House. \u201cHow many more lives, American lives, is it worth, how many endless rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biden blamed former President Donald Trump as well as the <\/span><span>Afghan military for the chaotic departure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor\u2014which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve of 9\/11 of 2019\u2014that left the Taliban in the strongest position militarily since 2001 and imposed a May 1, 2021 deadline on US forces,\u201d Biden said. \u201cShortly before he left office, he also drew US forces down to a bare minimum of 2,500. Therefore, when I became President, I faced a choice\u2014follow through on the deal, with a brief extension to get our forces and our allies\u2019 forces out safely, or ramp up our presence and send more American troops to fight once again in another country\u2019s civil conflict.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States will resume flights out of Afghanistan on Monday evening after flights were suspended earlier in the because of a security breach at Kabul\u2019s international airport.John Kirby, the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-652460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}