Afghanistan:Up to 600 Bundeswehr soldiers are supposed to secure the rescue
- Defense Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to provide up to 600 Bundeswehr soldiers to secure the rescue operation.
- Interior Minister Seehofer expects up to five million Afghan refugees.
- A Bundeswehr plane brings the first people out of Kabul.
- About 640 Afghans crowd into a US Air Force aircraft.
- US President Biden defends the withdrawal of US troops from the country and says the US goal was never to build democracy in Afghanistan, but to fight terrorism.
By Anna Ernst, Thomas Kirchner, Hannes Munzinger, Juri Auel and Philipp Saul
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