Thursday, August 26

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Canada ends its Afghanistan evacuation efforts

 A Canadian general has announced Thursday that his country has ended its efforts to evacuate people out of Kabul after bringing about 3,700 people to safety. 

“We stayed in Afghanistan for as long as we could. We were amongst the last to cease evacuation operations. We wish we could have stayed longer and rescued everyone who was so desperate to leave,” Gen. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s acting chief of Defense Staff, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying. “That we could not is truly heartbreaking, but the circumstances on the ground rapidly deteriorated.

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Germany completed its military evacuation from the Kabul airport on Thursday.  Canada, Poland, and Belgium have also finished getting their citizens and allies out of Afghanistan.