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The U.S. Embassy has limited its operations as the violence has escalated. “ The U.S. Embassy in Haiti remains open,” the statement reads. “Heightened gang violence in the neighborhood near ...
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Operation Allies Refuge was an evacuation effort carried out by the United States during the 2021 Taliban offensive.It took place in the final weeks of the War in Afghanistan and saw the airlifting of certain at-risk Afghan civilians (particularly coalition-allied interpreters), employees of the American embassy in Kabul, and other prospective applicants for the U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV).
Exclusive: “It would be better to die under the Taliban’s bullet,” said one local staff member quoted in the cable. Afghan staff at U.S. Embassy losing faith in evacuation efforts ...
The 2021 Kabul airlift was a large-scale evacuation operation conducted by the United States and its allies following the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 and during the final stages of the U.S. and NATO troop withdrawal, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. [27]
On 20 October, the US ordered all non-emergency staff to leave their embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil. [ 45 ] On 20 November, eight US and coalition soldiers were injured from a ballistic missile attack, and there was minor infrastructural damage after the air base was attacked by a ballistic missile.
U.S. special operations forces carried out a precarious evacuation of the American embassy in warring Sudan on Sunday, sweeping in and out of the capital, Khartoum, with helicopters on the ground ...
SPMAGTF-CR-CC arrive in Baghdad to reinforce the U.S. embassy, 31 December 2019. After the news of the embassy compound's perimeter breach, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper stated that reinforcements were en route to the compound and urged the Iraqi government to "fulfill its international responsibilities" and protect the facility. [26]