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Event 1: Afghanistan: Evacuations; CIA Director Meets with Taliban Leader
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Starting today, Airbnb will begin housing 20,000 Afghan refugees globally for free.
— Brian Chesky (@bchesky) August 24, 2021
US embassy issues last alert for US citizens to leave afghanistan or they’re on their own, then recalls it 30 mins later.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) August 24, 2021
NEW: House Intel Chair Adam Schiff just left a classified intel briefing on Afghanistan and broke a significant amount of news. Here are some of the highlights.
— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) August 24, 2021
First he said getting all Americans and allies out of the country by 8/31 is unlikely..
SCOOP: CIA Director Bill Burns held a secret meeting with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday, the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and Biden administration since the militants seized the Afghan capital 1/ https://t.co/gwGXGpdLWS
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) August 24, 2021
Since August 14, the U.S. has evacuated and facilitated the evacuation of approx. 58,700 people from Kabul. Contrary to most reporting in the media, this Herculean effort has been successful far beyond expectations.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) August 24, 2021
Retweet if you agree the media owes President Biden and the U.S. military an apology for their doomsday reporting on what has turned out to be a very successful evacuation of Americans and our Afghan allies from Kabul.
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) August 24, 2021
Jen Psaki to Peter Doocy: "I would say that this is now on track, Peter, to be largest airlift in US history ... so no, I would not say that is anything but a success." pic.twitter.com/goyQM9KQN6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 24, 2021
BREAKING: The U.S. military has started withdrawing from Afghanistan reducing troop presence: U.S. officials
— Lucas Tomlinson (@LucasFoxNews) August 24, 2021
Biden national security officials last week set goal of evacuating 5K-9K per day from Afghanistan
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 24, 2021
this morning, WH says 21,600 were flown out of Kabul in last 24 hours - 12,700 on US military flights, 8,900 on allied coalition flights
total evacuees in last 10 days: 58,700
We have helped to evacuate 70,700 people since August 14. This is a testament to the efforts of our brave service women and men, to our diplomats on the ground in Kabul, and to the Allies still standing with us.
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 24, 2021