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(28 Aug 2021) The UK's Chief of Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter has called the country's withdrawal from Afghanistan "heartbreaking."
A Royal Air Force plane carrying U.K. diplomatic staff and soldiers landed at the RAF Brize Norton airbase northwest of London early Saturday morning.
The troops from the 16 Air Assault Brigade were part of a contingent of 1,000 British soldiers based in Kabul to help run the airlift.
Flights bringing U.K. citizens and Afghan civilians from the Afghan capital have largely ended.
Carter, the U.K.’s top military officer, expressed regret that the UK had not been able to evacuate all of the Afghans who had aided British forces over the years.
Britain says it has evacuated more than 14,500 people from Kabul in the past two weeks but that as many as 1,000 Afghans entitled to come to the U.K. have been left behind.
Foreign nationals from around the world and citizens of Afghanistan who worked with them have sought to leave the country since the Taliban’s swift takeover this month in the wake of the departure of most U.S. forces.
More than 100,000 have been evacuated through Kabul airport, according to American officials.
The desperate, chaotic exodus turned deadly on Thursday, when a suicide bomber struck crowds gathered near the airport.
The attack killed 169 Afghans, according to a preliminary count, and 13 American troops.
Two British citizens and the child of another Briton also were among the people killed.

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