By 14 August, the Taliban had encircled Kabul. Intelligence projections quickly worsened. The Afghan National Army, poorly led and impaired by widespread corruption, was left in chaos, having only two units remained operational by mid-August: the 201st Corps and 111th Division, both based in Kabul. However, the government collapsed within days, much more rapidly than many anticipated. Intelligence agencies later reduced the estimation to one month. In July 2021, the US Intelligence Community estimated that the government of Afghanistan could collapse between six and 12 months after the departure of American troops. In the ensuing months, the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan through a combination of negotiating wholesale surrenders of Afghan National Army units and their military offensive, capturing provincial capitals, and expanding their control from 77 districts on 13 April to 104 districts on 16 June to 223 districts on 3 August. The Taliban and allied militant groups began a widespread offensive on, concurrent with the withdrawal of most US troops from Afghanistan. Nonetheless, the Biden administration decided to continue with the planned withdrawal, although it pushed back the completion date first to 11 September 2021 and then to 31 August 2021. The Taliban failed to honor most of its pledges in the agreement. Accordingly, the US agreed to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by. Main articles: Afghan refugees, 2021 Taliban offensive, and Fall of Kabul (2021)įollowing the Afghan peace process, the Trump administration and Taliban signed the Doha Agreement in February 2020. In total, over 122,000 people were airlifted abroad. Between 14 and 25 August, the US alone evacuated about 82,300 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport, including US citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants, and other vulnerable Afghans. The evacuation operations were one of the largest airlifts in history. Several countries launched new evacuation operations, such as the Canadian Operation AEGIS, the Indian Operation Devi Shakti, and South Korean Operation Miracle.
After the fall of Kabul on 15 August 2021 and the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai International Airport remained the only non-Taliban controlled route out of the country, being protected by several thousand NATO troops.Īlthough some countries had previously begun small-scale evacuation efforts in the months leading up to August 2021, such as the American Operation Allies Refuge and the British Operation Pitting, the collapse of the Afghan government occurred sooner than intelligence projections had estimated, and evacuation efforts became significantly more urgent. Large-scale evacuations of foreign citizens and some vulnerable Afghan citizens took place amid the withdrawal of US and NATO forces during the final days of the war in Afghanistan and the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan in 2021. 1 Afghan guard killed during a gunfight.6 Afghan civilian stowaways killed (one outside of Afghanistan).11 Afghan civilians killed during crowd crushes at the airport.159+ Afghan civilians, 13 US service members, and 3 British nationals killed during a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.Over 122,000 people have been airlifted abroad United States ( Operation Allies Refuge and private activities) Evacuations of international diplomatic, military and civilian staff, including national civilians
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