US troops have evacuated over 3,200 people from Kabul after Taliban seized control

The United States on Tuesday said that it has evacuated over 3,200 people from Kabul after the Taliban seized control in Afghanistan. The White House said that it had evacuated 1,100 people on Tuesday alone.

“Today, US military flights evacuated approximately 1,100 US citizens, US permanent residents, and their families on 13 flights, 12 with C-17 sorties and one with a C-130. Now that we have established the flow, we expect those numbers to escalate,” a White House official said on Tuesday.

“We have evacuated more than 3,200 people so far, including our personnel. In addition to these more than 3,200 total evacuated, we have relocated nearly 2,000 Afghan special immigrants to the United States,” said the White House official.

This comes after the militant group Taliban on Sunday, took control of Afghanistan on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghilani tendered his resignation and reportedly fled from the country.

Ever since the coup, the United States and India have launched evacuation operations to get their citizens out of the war-torn country. 

Meanwhile, the United Kingdom on Tuesday offered to provide shelter to 20,000 people fleeing from Afghanistan as the security situation in the country mounts with uncertainty. The rehabilitation scheme will start with giving place to 5,000 people in the first year and then extended the number to 20,000 on a long-term basis.  

  Nearly 9,000 troops from the United Kingdom have been sent off to Afghanistan’s Kabul to assist in the evacuation efforts of British civilians, which include nationals and staff from the embassy, according to reports from AFP.  

Meanwhile, India on Tuesday completed the evacuation of all 200 Indians including all its diplomats and other staff members from the Afghan capital under a “difficult and complicated” exercise, effectively closing its mission for the second time since 1996 when the militant group captured power.