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Marine grabs baby handed over wall at Kabul airport — A US Marine grabs an infant over a fence of barbed wire during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 19, 2021. A Pentagon official said Friday that US evacuation operations from Kabul's airport have been stalling because the receiving base in Qatar is overflowing and could not receive evacuees. "There has been a considerable amount of time today where there haven't been departures," Brig. Gen. Dan DeVoe of the US Air Mobility Command told reporters. — OMAR HAIDIRI/Courtesy of Omar Haidiri/AFP via Getty Images

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