The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) announced that more than 18,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul since the Taliban terrorist group took over Afghanistan’s capital five days ago. NATO’s latest development comes as the White House updated its evacuation tally on Aug. 19, saying the United States has evacuated about 3,000 more people from Kabul’s airport in the last 24 hours, bringing the total tally of Americans evacuated from the war-torn nation to about 9,000. “The U.S. evacuated approximately 3,000 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport on 16 C-17 flights,” the U.S. official said late on Thursday. “Nearly 350 U.S. citizens were evacuated. Additional evacuees include family members of U.S. citizens, SIV applicants and their families, and vulnerable Afghans,” the official added, referring to special immigrant visa applicants. “We have evacuated approximately 9,000 people since Aug. 14. Since the end of July, we have evacuated approximately 14,000 people.” President Joe …