{"id":686879,"date":"2021-08-26T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=686879"},"modified":"2021-08-26T13:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:36:20","slug":"canada-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-leaving-canadians-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/canada-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-leaving-canadians-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada Pulls Out Of Afghanistan, Leaving Canadians Behind"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fcanada-pulls-out-of-afghanistan-leaving-canadians-behind%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=686879&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-1234723006.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Canada has officially ended it evacuation operations in Kabul, Afghanistan and will leave some Canadians and Afghan allies behind.<\/p>\n<p>The country evacuated a total of 3,700 Canadians and Afghan allies from the country as the Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban took over the country.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement that Canada has completed its evacuation came hours before two explosions at the Kabul airport, where throngs of Afghans and Americans have gathered over the last week, attempting to catch an evacuation flight out to flee the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon confirmed that the explosion at Hamid Karzai International Airport\u2019s Abbey Gate resulted in an \u201cunknown number of casualties.\u201d U.S. officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/world\/live-news\/afghanistan-news-taliban-refugees-08-26-21-intl\/index.html\">said<\/a>&nbsp;at least three U.S. troops were injured.<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has been briefed on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that \u201cour engagement with Afghanistan is not done\u201d and called the situation \u201cheartbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>General Wayne Eyre, the country\u2019s acting Chief of Defense Staff, called it the \u201clargest, most complex and dangerous\u201d evacuation operation \u201cin modern history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reality on the ground is the perimeter of the airport is closed. The Taliban have tightened the noose. It\u2019s very, very difficult for anybody to get through at this point,\u201d Eyre&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/we-wished-we-could-have-stayed-longer-canadas-last-military-flight-leaves-kabul-days-before-aug-31-deadline\">said<\/a> Thursday morning at a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThroughout the operation, we received word of multiple imminent attacks, which necessitated changes to our plans on the ground, and demanded maximum adaptability and agility on the part of our people,\u201d Eyre continued.<\/p>\n<p>More than 8,000 people applied for evacuation by Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/we-wished-we-could-have-stayed-longer-canadas-last-military-flight-leaves-kabul-days-before-aug-31-deadline\">according<\/a> to Daniel Mills, assistant deputy minister of operations at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. More than half are on track to be left behind in Afghanistan after the Canadian military makes its final exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wish we could have stayed longer and rescued everyone who was so desperate to leave. That we could not is truly heartbreaking, but the circumstances on the ground have rapidly deteriorated. This is an extraordinary humanitarian crisis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau has promised to resettle 20,000 Afghan refugees in Canada over the next \u201cmonths and years.\u201d The prime minister is up for reelection next month.<\/p>\n<p>Canada pulled its military out of Afghanistan in 2014 but returned recently to evacuate Canadians and Canada\u2019s Afghan allies. Since Canada depended on the presence of U.S. troops at the airport to carry out its evacuation mission, the Canadian rescue mission had to be completed before the end of the month, when the Biden administration said U.S. troops would be out of the country. The Taliban warned the U.S. of \u201cconsequences\u201d if the U.S. stayed longer.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. embassy in Afghanistan&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/af.usembassy.gov\/security-alert-u-s-embassy-kabul-august-26-2021\/\">warned<\/a>&nbsp;U.S. citizens that there were also reports of gunfire and to avoid traveling to the airport. The embassy said that U.S. citizens who are currently at the airport should leave immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Photos of the aftermath of the blast emerged on Twitter showing people helping injured individuals as they flee the area. A graphic video shared on social media showed people bloodied and lying unconscious on the ground as others attempt to help them.<\/p>\n<p><em>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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada has officially ended it evacuation operations in Kabul, Afghanistan and will leave some Canadians and Afghan allies behind.The country evacuated a total of 3,700 Canadians and Afghan allies from &#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-686879","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\/686879","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=686879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686879\/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=686879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}