Spain has agreed to temporarily host 4,000 Afghans who worked for the US at two military bases in the southern part of the country.
The agreement between US President Joe Biden and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez allows the Afghans to stay in Spain for up to two weeks.
In a separate development, a plane carrying 260 Afghan refugees arrived on Monday at an EU military base in Space. The base, which is outside Madrid, is being used to host Afghan refugees and their families as they await settlement in another EU country.
More than 800 Afghans have arrived in Spain since last week.
Earlier today, US officials said they were setting up eight transit hubs across six countries.
“The transit hubs that we have arranged in Germany, Italy and Spain will have the combined capacity to process approximately 15,000 people on a rolling basis, which in turn will enable us to keep evacuating people continuously from Kabul,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
