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Australian forces won’t leave Kabul airport to help citizens blocked at Taliban checkpoints
Scott Morrison says Australian troops would be put at ‘great risk’ if they were to engage in operations beyond Afghanistan’s main airport
Australian forces will not leave Kabul airport to help Australians blocked at Taliban checkpoints in the captured Afghan capital, after some were injured in the chaos on the road to the airport overnight.
Despite the new militant regime promising “safe passage” to those who wanted to flee, Airport Road leading to Kabul’s international airfield, the only practicable way out of Afghanistan since the country fell to the Taliban, has been fortified with Taliban checkpoints, where gunmen are refusing to let people pass.
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