Afghanistan crisis: Evacuation deadline nears, countries busy in bringing back their people - in pics

India has airlifted 565 people from Afghanistan, most of them Indian embassy personnel and citizens living there but also dozens of Afghans including Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, a government official said on condition of anonymity. There was no decision yet on when they planned to stop the flights, he said.

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The US military will continue evacuating people from Kabul airport until August 31 if needed, but will prioritise the removal of US troops and military equipment on the last couple of days, the Pentagon has said. Washington has so far evacuated 4,500 US citizens and their families, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on August 25. There are still about 1,500 US citizens in Afghanistan and the US government is working to either contact them or has already given them instructions on how to get to Kabul airport, Blinken said.

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British forces have entered the final stages of evacuating people from Kabul's airport and processing facilities have closed, Britain's defence ministry said on Friday (August 27). The effort would now focus on evacuating British nationals and others who have already been cleared to leave and are already at the airport, the ministry said. No further people would be called forward to the airport for evacuation, it said. So far, Britain has evacuated more than 13,700 British nationals and Afghans, representing the second biggest airlift by the country's air force after the Berlin Airlift in 1949, the ministry said.

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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday (August 27) that Australia had evacuated 4,100 people, including over 3,200 citizens and Afghans with Australian visas, over nine days, with the last planned flight leaving before the airport blasts. The other evacuees were from coalition partners. He also said Australia's operations there were now complete. Morrison acknowledged some Australian visa holders remain in Afghanistan, though he said Canberra did not know exact numbers.

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Germany has said it will continue evacuation flights as long as possible. By early on Thursday (August 26), the German military had evacuated 5,193 people on 34 flights. The ministry said on Wednesday it estimated more than 200 German citizens remained in Kabul. Some 540 Germans had already been evacuated. Overall, Germany had said it had identified 10,000 people who needed to be evacuated, including Afghan local staff, journalists and human rights activists.

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Canadian forces in Kabul ended evacuation efforts for their citizens and Afghans on Thursday (August 26), ahead of an August 31 deadline, acting chief of the defence staff General Wayne Eyre said. He said Canada had evacuated or facilitated the evacuation of around 3,700 Canadian and Afghan citizens.

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France expects to complete its evacuation flights from Kabul on Friday (August 27) evening, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said. The French foreign ministry said that, as of August 25 evening, more than 100 French nationals and more than 2,000 Afghans had reached French soil after being evacuated from Kabul airport.