Pentagon says 17,000 evacuated so far from Afghanistan, including 2,500 Americans
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The Pentagon on Saturday said 17,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul since the Taliban surged last week, including 2,500 Americans, while officials also conceded that a "small number" had been harassed or beaten trying to get to the airport.
In the last 24 hours, six military C-17s and 32 charter planes have left the country with a total of 3,800 people, officials said. Three flights, meanwhile, have landed at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. The numbers come a week after the Taliban caught the U.S. flat-footed and surged throughout the country and into Kabul ahead of the planned Aug. 31 withdrawal, leading to a scramble and scenes of chaos as Americans and Afghan allies, some applying for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV), sought to get out of the country before it fell to the radical Islamist militant group.More Related News