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Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United States and allies are hurryingto evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible beforean Aug. 31 deadline. The combined effort has evacuated about111,000 people since Aug. 14, the day before the Taliban enteredKabul, the White House said on Friday.
Here are some more details of the evacuation effort bycountry:
UNITED STATES
The U.S. military will continue evacuating people from Kabulairport until Aug. 31 if needed, but will prioritize the removalof U.S. troops and military equipment on the last couple ofdays, the Pentagon has said.
Washington has evacuated 5,100 U.S. citizens since Aug. 14,the White House said.
There were still about 1,500 U.S. citizens in Afghanistanand the U.S. government was working to either contact them orhad already given them instructions on how to get to Kabulairport.
BRITAIN
British troops will end their evacuation of civilians onSaturday, armed forces chief General Nick Carter said, addingthat after this, Britain would be bringing out its troops on theremaining aircraft.
The defence ministry said late on Friday that it hadevacuated more than 14,500 Afghan and British nationals in thetwo weeks since the Taliban took control of the country.
CANADA
Canadian forces in Kabul ended evacuation efforts for theircitizens and Afghans on Thursday, acting chief of the defencestaff General Wayne Eyre said.
He said Canada had evacuated or facilitated the evacuationof about 3,700 Canadian and Afghan citizens.
GERMANY
Germany ended evacuation flights on Thursday. The Germanmilitary has evacuated 5,347 people, including more than 4,100Afghans.
Germany previously said it had identified 10,000 people whoneeded to be evacuated, including Afghan local staff,journalists and human rights activists. About 300 Germancitizens remain in Afghanistan, a spokesman for the foreignoffice in Berlin said on Friday.
FRANCE
The French Defence Ministry said that, as of Thursdayevening, more than 100 French nationals and more than 2,500Afghans had reached French soil after being evacuated fromKabul.
ITALY
Italy said that by Aug. 26, 4,832 Afghans had been broughtout of Afghanistan. Some 4,575 have arrived so far in Italy. TheItalian government expects its last evacuation flight to leaveAfghanistan later on Friday, Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio toldreporters.
SWEDEN
Sweden has ended its evacuation mission in Kabul, SwedishForeign Minister Ann Linde said on Friday. She said that a totalof 1,100 people had been evacuated, including all locallyemployed embassy staff and their families.
BELGIUM
Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Thursday Belgiumhad ended its evacuation operations. Just over 1,400 people wereevacuated, with the last flight arriving in the Pakistan capitalof Islamabad on Wednesday night, he said.
IRELAND
Ireland's foreign ministry said that it had evacuated 36Irish citizens after the completion of an emergency consularmission on Thursday.
It said it was now aware of approximately 60 Irish citizensand family members plus a further 15 Afghan citizens with Irishresidency who are still in the country and have requestedassistance, far more than they had initially estimated.
POLAND
Poland has evacuated about 900 people from Afghanistan,including about 300 women and 300 children, Prime MinisterMateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday.
HUNGARY
Hungary has ended evacuations in Afghanistan afterairlifting 540 people, including Hungarian citizens and Afghansand their families who worked for Hungarian forces previously,Defence Minister Tibor Benko said on Thursday.
DENMARK
Denmark made its last evacuation flight out of Kabul onWednesday with the remaining diplomatic staff and militarypersonnel, according to its defence ministry.
Denmark has airlifted about 1,000 people from Afghanistansince Aug. 14, including diplomatic staff, their families,former interpreters, Danish citizens as well as people fromallied countries, the ministry said.
UKRAINE
Ukraine has evacuated of all of its citizens who wanted toleave, the president's chief of staff said on Saturday.
In all, it has flown out more than 600 people includingforeign journalists, rights activists, women and children,Andriy Yermak said.
AUSTRIA
Austria is not operating its own flights and is relying onGermany and other countries to help with its evacuation. ForeignMinister Alexander Schallenberg told national broadcaster ORF onWednesday 89 people with Austrian citizenship or residency hadbeen airlifted out, while another two to three dozen people werestill in Afghanistan.
SWITZERLAND
Switzerland, which is relying on Germany and the UnitedStates to help with its evacuation efforts via Tashkent, has got292 people out of Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassissaid on Tuesday. There were still 15 Swiss citizens inAfghanistan, but no more Swiss evacuation flights were planned.
THE NETHERLANDS
The Dutch government said on Thursday it had evacuated 2,500people from Afghanistan since Aug. 15, with about 1,600 of thembrought to the Netherlands. The Dutch ambassador left on thefinal flight on Thursday. The Dutch have no diplomatic presenceleft in the country.
SPAIN
Spain has concluded its evacuation of personnel fromAfghanistan, the government said.
Two military planes carrying the last 81 Spaniards out ofKabul arrived in Dubai early on Friday, a government statementsaid. The planes were also carrying four Portuguese soldiers and83 Afghans who had worked with NATO countries.
Over the course of its rescue mission Spain evacuated 1,898Afghans who had worked with Western countries, the UnitedNations or the European Union.
TURKEY
Turkey has evacuated at least 1,400 people from Afghanistan,including about 1,000 Turkish citizens, Foreign Minister MevlutCavusoglu said this week.
QATAR
Qatar said on Thursday it had helped evacuate more than40,000 people to Doha and "evacuation efforts will continue inthe coming days in consultation with international partners".
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
The UAE said on Thursday it had helped evacuate 36,500people to date, including 8,500 coming to the UAE via itsnational carriers or airports.
INDIA
India has airlifted 565 people from Afghanistan, most ofthem embassy personnel and citizens living there but also dozens of Afghans including Afghan Sikhs and Hindus, agovernment official said.
AUSTRALIA
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday thatAustralia had evacuated 4,100 people, including over 3,200citizens and Afghans with Australian visas, over nine days, withthe last planned flight leaving before the airport attack. Theother evacuees were from coalition partners.
Morrison acknowledged some Australian visa holders remainedin Afghanistan though he did not know exact numbers.
Australia is committed to bringing at least 3,000 morepeople out over coming months as part of a humanitarianprogramme, Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said.
NEW ZEALAND
New Zealands Defence Force ran three flights out of Kabul,and the last planned flight had left before the attack, agovernment statement said.
No NZDF personnel were in Kabul at the time of theexplosions and no New Zealand evacuees were left within Kabulairport. According to preliminary numbers, at least 276 NewZealand nationals and permanent residents, their families andother visa holders were evacuated, it said.
(Compiled by Reuters staffEditing by Raissa Kasolowsky, Alex Richardson, RajuGopalakrishnan, Ana Nicolaci da Costa, Nick Macfie, FrancesKerry and Andrew Heavens) ((raissa.kasolowsky@thomsonreuters.com;))
