UK Will Use ‘Every Hour’ Left for Kabul Evacuations: Foreign Secretary

UK Will Use ‘Every Hour’ Left for Kabul Evacuations: Foreign Secretary
UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab leaves Downing Street on Aug. 19, 2021. Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images
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UK officials will use “every hour” left to maximize the number of people who can be evacuated from Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Aug. 25.

The British government is working “as fast as we can” to evacuate people at the Kabul airport, Raab told BBC Radio 4’s Today program, adding that 2,000 have been evacuated in the previous 24 hours.