{"id":36053,"date":"2021-08-28T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T02:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-live-news-uks-ability-to-process-evacuations-extremely-reduced-as-us-on-alert-for-further-attacks"},"modified":"2021-08-28T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T13:46:10","slug":"afghanistan-live-news-us-carries-out-drone-strike-against-islamic-state-american-citizens-warned-to-leave-kabul-airport-gates-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36053","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan live news: last dedicated civilian flight to UK has left Kabul, says Ministry of Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Final UK evacuation flight purely for Afghan nationals has departed; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-live-news-uks-ability-to-process-evacuations-extremely-reduced-as-us-on-alert-for-further-attacks?page=with:block-612994198f0879c830c07fc3#block-612994198f0879c830c07fc3\">US drone strike killed Islamic State member, no civilians<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-drone-strike-targeted-islamic-state-planner-in-car-us-says\">Afghanistan drone strike targeted Islamic State \u2018planner\u2019 in car, US says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/uk-councils-ready-to-assist-afghan-refugees-lack-housing\">UK councils \u2018ready to assist\u2019 Afghan refugees but lack housing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/27\/fear-fury-kabul-thousands-face-being-abandoned-by-uk\">Fear and fury in Kabul as thousands face being abandoned by UK<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/28\/ending-evacuation-afghanistan-heartbreaking-uk-nick-carter\">Ending evacuation is \u2018heartbreaking\u2019, UK armed forces chief says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2021\/aug\/27\/a-photojournalists-first-hand-experience-of-the-kabul-bombings-in-pictures\">Twelve days of chaos in Kabul \u2013 in pictures<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">See all our Afghanistan coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-28T13:38:01.098Z\">2.38pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p class=\"block-time published-time\"> <time datetime=\"2021-08-28T13:22:09.187Z\">2.22pm <span class=\"timezone\">BST<\/span><\/time> <\/p>\n<p>Wazhma left everything behind to escape Taliban rule after the extremist group took control of Afghanistan, aspiring for a life \u201cfree of threats\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n<p>In a facility in the UAE, temporarily hosting Afghan evacuees heading to other countries, the 21-year-old medical student struggled to overcome the terror she experienced during the last days at home.<\/p>\n<p>I only took the clothes on me. Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Never, only if the Taliban go away. I\u2019m happy I left. The only thing I am worried about now is my mother, father, sister and brother.<\/p>\n<p>I took my kids\u2019 clothes only and our IDs. We lost everything, the carpets, the couches, the baby clothes. All gone. I just want my kids to have a good life.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/28\/afghanistan-live-news-uks-ability-to-process-evacuations-extremely-reduced-as-us-on-alert-for-further-attacks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Final UK evacuation flight purely for Afghan nationals has departed; US drone strike killed Islamic State member, no civiliansAfghanistan drone strike targeted Islamic State \u2018planner\u2019 in car, US saysUK councils \u2018ready to assist\u2019 Afghan refugees but lac&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36053"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36088,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36053\/revisions\/36088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}