Afghanistan Updates: People are falling to deaths, as they attempt to cling on to planes leaving the country(VIDEO)
In a live video trending online, Afghans were seen cling to planes leaving the country; meanwhile, the UK is talking to the Taliban via a third state to get assurances over the safety of diplomats still in Afghanistan and Afghan nations who helped allied forces.
In a live video trending online, Afghans were seen cling to planes leaving the country; meanwhile, the UK is talking to the Taliban via a third state to get assurances over the safety of diplomats still in Afghanistan and Afghan nations who helped allied forces. This is coming following the take over of Afghanistan by the Taliban.
In Afghanistan, people are falling to their deaths, as they attempt to cling on to planes leaving the country. pic.twitter.com/XIc24NfA8I
— Lavern Spicer (@lavern_spicer) August 16, 2021
Meanwhile, the European Union foreign ministers will hold a crisis meeting on Tuesday to discuss the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday.
“Following latest developments in Afghanistan, and after intense contacts with partners in the past days and hours, I decided to convene an extraordinary VTC of EU foreign ministers tomorrow afternoon for a first assessment,” Borrell said on Twitter.
“Afghanistan stands at a crossroad. Security and wellbeing of its citizens, as well as international security, are at play,” he added.
There were speculations that the Taliban takeover could extinguish the U.S. influence in Kabul. More so, the fall of Kabul on Sunday left the Biden administration facing the once-unthinkable prospect of whether, and how, to engage with a Taliban-led government in Afghanistan’s capital — or cede all influence in the country to an extremist group that brutalized Afghans and harboured Osama bin Laden as he planned attacks on America.
