U.S. orders American airlines to aid Afghan evacuation
The Hindu
Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin activated the rarely-used Civil Reserve Air Fleet to aid the onward movement of people.
The United States on Sunday enlisted several major airlines in its frantic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans, Americans and other foreigners from Kabul following its fall to Taliban extremists. Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin activated the rarely-used Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF) to aid the onward movement of people arriving at U.S. bases in the Middle East, the Pentagon said. "We're going to try our very best to get everybody, every American citizen who wants to get out, out," Mr. Austin said in an ABC interview on the evacuation mission, adding that the same applied to America's Afghan allies.
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