{"id":5819,"date":"2021-08-17T05:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2021-08-17T05:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:42:12","slug":"us-embassy-asks-citizens-not-to-come-to-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/08\/us-embassy-asks-citizens-not-to-come-to-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"US embassy asks citizens not to come to airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Following Monday\u2019s deadly scenes at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the US Embassy has asked citizens not to come to the facility unless notified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a brief note on Twitter, Ross Wilson, Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan said he and his staff remain in Kabul and are working to help thousands of US citizens and vulnerable Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/USEmbassyKabul\">@USEmbassyKabul<\/a> staff &amp; I remain in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Kabul?src=hashtag_click\">#Kabul<\/a> working hard to help 1000s of U.S. citizens and vulnerable Afghans &amp; continuing engagement here. Our commitment to the Afghan people endures\u201d, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy has also issued a statement pleading the potential travelers not to rush to the airport unless they are notified.<\/p>\n<p>It has notified that the security situation in Kabul continues to change quickly, including at the airport hence the U.S. citizens should continue to shelter in place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cU.S. citizens must complete this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/pages\/responsepage.aspx?id=dFDPZv5a0UimkaErISH0S0jG7jCPVrpAs2b5YumFx6FUOUNBS0lPNFk1SjhEQzBRRDlXS0NXNFM1WCQlQCN0PWcu\">Repatriation Assistance Request<\/a>\u00a0for each traveler in their group.\u00a0Spouses and minor children of U.S. citizens in Afghanistan who are awaiting immigrant visas should also complete this form if they wish to depart\u201d, stated the embassy.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban\u2019s spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, assured humanitarian workers and diplomats that their security would be ensured. \u201cWe assure all diplomats, embassies, consulates, and charitable workers, whether they are international or national that not only no problem will be created for them on the part of IEA (Islamic Emirate of Taliban) but a secure environment will be provided to them, Inshallah\u201d, he tweeted late on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There were also reports of the Taliban conducting searches in homes, particularly in the western quarters of the city.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 Following Monday\u2019s deadly scenes at the Hamid Karzai International Airport, the US Embassy has asked citizens not to come to the facility unless notified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,166,187],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul","tag-us"],"views":557,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}