EU evacuates all staff from Afghanistan except core team at Kabul airport: Commission

The European Union has evacuated all its staff from Afghanistan, apart from some officials still working at Kabul airport, a spokesperson for the executive European Commission said on Tuesday.

"All the staff who needed to be evacuated have been evacuated," he told journalists in Brussels.

"We still have a core presence at the airport in order to manage what needs to managed, but the staff of the EU delegation and their families have all been evacuated."

(Reuters)