France will stop its evacuation efforts at the Kabul airport on Aug. 27, the country’s prime minister has announced. “From tomorrow evening onward, we are not able to evacuate people from the Kabul airport,” French Prime Minister Jean Castex told RTL radio on Aug. 26. The Dutch government said it expects to carry out its last evacuation flight out of Afghanistan on Aug. 26. The United States and its allies have urged their citizens and visa holders to move away from the airport, citing the threat of terror attacks by the ISIS terrorist group. UK Armed Forces Minister James Heappey said on the morning of Aug. 26 that there was a “very credible” threat of a “highly lethal” terror attack on Kabul airport within hours. The threat is believed to have come from ISIS-K, or Islamic State Khorasan, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan that consists of disaffected Taliban members who …
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