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[Note: You can find our coverage of the groundbreaking story of the explosion outside the airport here].
IRISH ARMY RANGERS and diplomats in Afghanistan will be warning of a terrorist threat at the airport from the country in the coming hours Leaving Kabul.
Most of the Irish crewmen who traveled to Kabul earlier this week are expected to leave with French officials in the next few hours.
Several countries have citizens facing a possible attack warned of the airport, where thousands of people flocked to leave the Taliban-controlled country.
Foreign and Defense Minister Simon Coveney called for those remaining in the country in a statement confirming the withdrawal of the diplomatic team Irish citizens not to try to reach Kabul airport.
« The pre-planned process of our mission’s withdrawal of the Consular Emergency Assistance Team (ECAT) to Kabul has started and will continue this Thursday, August 26, « said Coveney.
» Irish diplomats and Army Ranger Wing members have evacuated a number of Irish citizens and residents helped from Afghanistan. These evacuation flights are taking place today and for security and operational reasons we will not give any details on the numbers until the ECAT has left Kabul.
As of Tuesday, ten Irish citizens had been evacuated from Afghanistan, 36 citizens and family members were still in the country .
After the US signed the deadline for the full withdrawal of Afghanistan troops on August 31, several nations landed flight after flight on the only runway at Kabul airport to evacuate people.
The Taliban have so far kept their pledge not to attack Western troops during the evacuation, but insist that the foreign troops must be withdrawn by the end of the month.
Overnight, new warnings of a possible threat came through from the western capitals the subsidiary of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, Isis-K, whose ranks are likely due to the release of Prisoners were reinforced across the country by the Taliban during their lightning strike.
Some other countries, including Turkey, have already begun withdrawing their soldiers and diplomats from Kabul.
Belgium said yesterday it will end Evacuation after its military aircraft had flown around 1,100 people – including Europeans and Afghans – in the past few days.
Members of Ireland’s elite Army Ranger Wing were sent to Kabul earlier this week to help evacuate the last to help remaining Irish citizens.
A group of soldiers entered the country with at least two high-ranking officials from the Foreign Office.
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This morning, Secretary of State Simon Coveney said this team is « safe and busy, & is doing a fantastic job with partners ». « We are staying in close contact with them to make exit decisions, » said the minister on Twitter.
The Army Ranger Wing is a unit of the armed forces. His roles are divided into conventional warfare roles and specialized anti-terrorist roles.
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