Britain will conclude its evacuation programme of civilians from Afghanistan on Saturday with only troops left to be flown out after that ahead of the August 31 exit deadline, Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff said.
General Sir Nick Carter how there were now "very few" civilian evacuation flights arriving in the UK from Kabul. But Sir Nick warned Britain is "not out of the woods yet" as the UK's evacuation efforts following the Taliban takeover draw to a close. And he urged people to think of military personnel as the deadline for the final planes to leave Afghanistan rapidly approaches.
He said the reality is that not everyone will get out: "Not a day passes where I don't have a tear in my eye over that." He said that the country should be ''holding its breath'' at the challenge ahead amid the threat posed by the local Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) terror group, which has been behind suicide bombings this week as the airlift rescue operations have been underway. Carter said Britain is ''not out of the woods yet'' as the UK's evacuation efforts following the Taliban takeover draw to a close. ''The plain fact is we have always got that in the back of our minds. For the troops on the ground, they have to be constantly alert and constantly thinking about how they can rebut the threat,” he said.
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