[ April 28, 2026 ]
Shots fired outside airport …… and ‘Biden’ said he won’t prioritize Americans over Afghans in Afghanistan evacuation.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby confirmed that the administration will not give priority evacuation to Americans in Afghanistan over Afghans applying for visas.
We are now hearing reports there are thousands of American citizens still throughout Afghanistan that have not made it to the airport
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) August 17, 2021
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Shots fired outside Kabul airport as Taliban tries controlling the crowd. pic.twitter.com/3aRizMu7Gv
— Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) August 17, 2021
"Can anyone even imagine taking out our Military before evacuating civilians and others who have been good to our Country and who should be allowed to seek refuge? In addition, these people left topflight and highly sophisticated equipment. Who can believe such incompetence?" pic.twitter.com/jpGHnEKNgc
— Natalie Harp (@NatalieJHarp) August 16, 2021
Our adversaries see Joe Biden’s incompetence, his inability to speak without a script, and his vacation during a crisis—and they laugh at him.
This is dangerous.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 17, 2021
State Department tells Americans stranded in Afghanistan to shelter in place and NOT go to the Kabul airport as US works to ‘regain positive control’ of evacuation flights
- State Department spokesman Ned Price told Americans stranded in Afghanistan on Monday to shelter in place and not head to the Kabul airport for evacuation
- ‘We are working around the clock… to regain positive control over the airport compound,’ Price said during a press conference on Monday
- The Kabul airport came under fire by the Taliban on Sunday and on Monday was forced to shut down as chaos ensued with Afghan residents trying to leave
- Three stowaways plunged hundreds of feet to their deaths after clinging to the wheels of an evacuation flight from the Kabul airport
- Hundreds of people ran alongside a taxiing US Air Force plane and clambered on to the front and rear wheels
- An Apache helicopter was used to buzz the tarmac to chase people off the runway so planes could take off as U.S. military members fired warning shots
- U.S. was forced to halt evacuation flights as soldiers fought to clear the runway
- All non-military flights have been grounded
- Afghan government collapsed this week without the support of the U.S. military
- WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT
The State Department told Americans still stranded in Afghanistan on Monday to shelter in place rather than head to the Kabul airport for evacuation as the U.S. works to ‘regain positive control’ of the airport.
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‘The situation is evolving quickly and we will communicate information to U.S. citizens as rapidly as possible,’ State spokesman Ned Price said during a press conference on Monday afternoon.
‘In the meantime,’ he continued, ‘we are asking U.S. citizens to shelter and not to travel to the airport until they hear otherwise from the Department of State.’
His remarks came moments after President Joe Biden made remarks doubling-down on his decision to withdraw entirely from Afghanistan, which has thrown the country into chaos and allowed the swift takeover by the Taliban.
‘We are working around the clock, in the first instance, to maintain, to regain positive control over the airport compound,’ Price said. ‘This is something that our colleagues at the Department of Defense have been working urgently to reestablish for a couple reasons. One, to be able to resume U.S. Military flights… but importantly, this is also a civilian airport.’
‘We are seeking to reestablish positive control in order – so that commercial travel can also resume, so that many of these Afghans…will be able to reach safety,’ Price said.
The Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul came under fire by the Taliban on Sunday as the Islamic militant forces took the city after Afghani President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.
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