US Embassy asks Americans to avoid traveling to airport

The U.S. Embassy successful Afghanistan is asking Americans to debar traveling to the airdrome successful Kabul owed to information threats.

"U.S. citizens who are astatine the Abbey Gate, East Gate, oregon North Gate present should permission immediately," a connection connected the embassy's webpage says.

President Biden said Tuesday that the U.S. faces threats from ISIS-K, which is besides an force of the Taliban.

"Every time that we're connected the crushed is different time that we cognize ISIS-K is seeking to people the airdrome and onslaught some the U.S. and allied forces and guiltless civilians," Biden said.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the U.S. estimates that astir 1,500 American citizens stay successful Afghanistan.

Among those stuck successful Afghanistan are astir 2 twelve students from a San Diego-area school.

According to KGTV, the students were visiting household members during the summertime interruption and planned to instrumentality to the U.S. anterior to the Taliban's takeover.

Blinken told reporters Wednesday that the evacuation efforts dwell of “dynamic calculations” that the medication is moving hr by hr to refine for accuracy.

Blinken said the U.S. is connected way to implicit its ngo by Aug. 31 provided the Taliban proceed to cooperate and determination are nary disruptions.