The 2021 Kabul airlift was a large-scale evacuation operation conducted by the United States and its allies following the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 and during the final stages of the U.S. and NATO troop withdrawal, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. [27]

Aug 30, 2022 · The U.S. Air Force conducted airlift operations to transport approximately 124,000 people from Kabul as part Operation Allies Refuge. The operation was one of the largest air evacuations of civilians in American history.

Sep 1, 2021 · The evacuation of Kabul, over 120,000 people in two weeks, is one of the biggest airlifts in history. It was also a chaotic stampede of tens of thousands of Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

Aug 14, 2023 · It's been two years since the Taliban entered Kabul, throwing the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan into chaos. Crowds of people desperate to leave the country surrounded the...

Kabul airlift may refer to: Kabul airlift of 1928–1929, during the Afghan Civil War; 2021 Kabul airlift, during the Taliban offensive

Sep 22, 2022 · The exhausting conclusion of the Kabul airlift marked the largest such operation in modern U.S. history, one that was honored recently on the one-year anniversary of the suicide bombing at the...

Sep 3, 2021 · Though it had no official name, the American air evacuation from Kabul, Afghanistan, was one of the largest such operations in history. Over the course of 16 flight days, U.S. forces alone...

Oct 6, 2021 · The little-known 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing worked around the clock to get Air Force jets to Kabul and care for refugees.

Sep 2, 2021 · The largest emergency airlift ever handled by the U.S. military started slowly and built to a torrent.

Jan 25, 2023 · A security forces airman was one of a few U.S. troops on the ground at Hamid Karzai International Airport when the Afghan airlift began.