Pentagon Leads Major Operation to Evacuate 18 Thousand Afghanis Soon

The Defense Department (Pentagon) of the United States of America (USA) is going to start a major operation to evacuate some 18 thousand Afghanis to other places.

The evacuated people include those who cooperated with the US forces during their occupying of Afghanistan that lasted for about twenty years.

Sources in the Pentagon said that the evacuation operation will be completed before the August 31 coinciding withdrawal of the last US troopers of the Afghani territories.

According to Defence News, these sources did reveal the date of the evacuation of the collaborators, with the US forces during the period of occupation, out of Afghanistan lest exposing them to vengeful attacks launched by the Taliban and their allies.

The Islamic militant movement considers the collaborators, especially the translators whom they considered as supporters of the invaders.

The translators defend themselves and said they were only a channel of communication between the US forces and the institutions and Afghani Tribes who speak local dialects only.

US sources pointed that the Pentagon will facilitate granting visas to the evacuated people to permit them to the US lands without gathering them in US military bases outside Afghanistan to hos them there ahead of issuing the visas to enter the USA.

On the other hand, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) warned that Afghanistan is tethering on the brink of a severe humanitarian crisis due to the escalating struggle there.

The organization revealed that fierce clashes between the Taliban, an Afghani militant movement, and the government forces enforce hundred thousand to flee their homes.

It added that more than 3.5 people are displaced now in various parts of the country; 270 thousand have been displaced recently since the beginning of the current year.

However, the United Nations  Mission to Afghanistan pointed out that victims of civilians rose by 29% in the first quarter of the standing year compared to the last year.

This increase in victims coincides with the withdrawal of the US forces from Afghanistan.

Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the UNHCR, said that numbers of the displaced people affirmed that they were compelled to flee owing to blackmail and harassment committed by the armed groups, lack of social services, and absence of security.