{"id":663000,"date":"2021-08-19T18:06:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=663000"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:06:30","slug":"france-deploys-special-forces-to-rescue-citizens-stranded-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-deploys-special-forces-to-rescue-citizens-stranded-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"France Deploys Special Forces To Rescue Citizens Stranded in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ffrance-deploys-special-forces-to-rescue-citizens-stranded-in-afghanistan%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=663000&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 readability=\"28.649819494585\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says US military lacks &#8216;capability&#8217; to extract Americans<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234723152-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234723152-e1629405915727.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234723152-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234723152-768x512.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tFrench Special Forces soldiers \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 August 19, 2021 5:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"61.687128712871\">\n<p>France is deploying special forces to rescue its citizens stranded in war-torn Afghanistan, according to the country&#8217;s media.<\/p>\n<p>French troops have evacuated nearly 400 people, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/evacuations-afghanistan-by-country-2021-08-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including<\/a> French civilians and Afghans who helped the country&#8217;s military, from the capital city of Kabul, which the Taliban captured on Sunday. The French special forces have rescued civilians outside of Kabul&#8217;s Hamid Karzai International Airport, which has been the site of the United States&#8217; chaotic evacuation efforts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/afghanistan\/2021\/08\/19\/as-us-military-sticks-to-airport-british-and-french-forces-are-rescuing-their-citizens-in-kabul-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to&nbsp;<em>Military Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>British special forces have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/sas-launch-daring-mission-rescue-24772841\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conducted<\/a> similar operations in recent days to rescue British civilians stranded in the country.<\/p>\n<p>France&#8217;s evacuation efforts come as U.S. military leaders say they do not have the &#8220;capability&#8221; to rescue Americans stranded outside the airport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The forces that we have are focused on the security of the airfield. And you know how important that is, and you know what happens if we\u2014if we lose the ability to provide that security,&#8221; Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told reporters Wednesday. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have the capability to go out and collect up large numbers of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. forces have struggled to evacuate Americans stuck in Kabul amid the United States&#8217; troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. There are thousands of U.S. citizens stranded in Kabul &#8220;with no ability to get to the airport&#8221; because of Taliban-controlled checkpoints, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/16\/biden-must-rescue-thousands-us-citizens-trapped-afghanistan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to the <em>Washington Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says US military lacks &#8216;capability&#8217; to extract Americans  French Special Forces soldiers \/ Getty Images  Cole Carnick &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-663000","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\/663000","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663000\/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=663000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}