This footage shows crowds of evacuees piling into US military planes during ‘Operation Allies Refuge’ which aims to evacuate U.S. citizens, Special Immigrant Visa applicants and other at-risk Afghans from Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul.

The footage was released yesterday (22nd August) and shows the evacuation taking place at the Hamid Karzai International Airport In the Afghan capital of Kabul.

A second clip shows troops preparing temporary housing for evacuees who will be held in the city of Grafenwohr in Germany whilst they await transit to their final destination.

The US military said in a statement that: “Qualified evacuees will receive support, such as temporary lodging, food, medical screening and treatment and more”

They added: “while housed at the Rhein Ordnance Barracks (Kaiserslautern), Germany, and Grafenwoehr, Germany, in preparation for onward movements to their final destinations.”

Al-Jazeera quoted President Biden yesterday saying: “We’re executing a plan to move groups of these Americans to safety and to safely and effectively move them to the airport compound. For security reasons, I’m not going to go into detail,”

He added: “But I will say again today what I’ve said before: Any American who wants to get home will get home.”

The Taliban took control of Afghanistan and Kabul in just a matter of weeks following the announcement that the US would withdraw from the country following a two-decade-long military campaign.

The evacuation of locals who have co-operated with the USA and its allies during the war which has often been referred to as the US’ ‘forever war’ has been chaotic.

Since the evacuation efforts began on 14th August the airfield has been mobbed by crowds of Afghans and foreign nationals desperately trying to board planes leaving the capital.

This recent footage from the military depicts a scene much more orderly than what has been usually seen over the last few weeks.

In the clip, evacuees can be seen patiently waiting to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III which is expected to fly them to the German cities of Kaiserslautern or Grafenwohr.

President Biden said: “Let me be clear, the evacuation of thousands from Kabul is going to be hard and painful”

He added: “We have a long way to go and a lot could still go wrong.”

Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, elaborated on what could go wrong saying that there are concerns armed groups could exploit the chaos seen in and around the airfield.

Sullivan told CNN that the military is using: “a wide variety of capabilities” to defend against a potential attack.

Al-Jazeera reports that as of yesterday (22nd August), the US-led airlift has seen 28,000 people flown out of Kabul.

The Biden administration estimates that there are a further 50,000-60,000 Afghan nationals who are expected to be evacuated along with 15,000 more US nationals.