President Biden said he would address Americans on Tuesday about the decision not to extend the U. Biden said in a statement Monday afternoon. Blinken said there are "under , likely closer to " Americans left in Afghanistan. A new chapter of America's engagement with Afghanistan has begun. It's one in which we will lead with our diplomacy," Blinken said. The withdrawal came nearly 20 years after the U.
Thursday marked the deadliest day in for U. Scores of Afghan civilians were also killed. McKenzie, who has served in Afghanistan and whose son served there as well, said he felt "conflicted" when asked for his personal reflections on the withdrawal. But he said he was "focused" for the past few weeks on the mission at hand to evacuate American citizens and at-risk Afghans who helped U.
McKenzie acknowledged that "we did not get out everybody we wanted to get out," estimating that several hundred were unable to evacuated.
Many leave and never de-register. Or others come and choose not to register in the first place. So, we have been working for the past few days to get fidelity on as precise a count as possible.
We have reached out to thousands of Americans by phone, email, text. And we are working on plans to, as we get in touch with people, give them direction for the best and most safe and most effective way for them to get into the airport. The effort to get the remaining citizens, legal permanent residents and eligible Afghans out of the country is now a diplomatic one handled by the State Department. In a Sept. Nuland said that the U. We rely on grants and individual donations from people like you.
Please consider a donation. If you prefer to give by check, send to: FactCheck. In this Department of Defense photo, evacuees wait to board a U. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Victor Mancillal.
Stephanopoulos: And? The United States has evacuated more than 5, U. A small number of American citizens have chosen to continue to stay in Afghanistan, many of them so they can be with family members.
The Biden administration has said it expects the Taliban to continue allowing safe passage for Americans and others to leave Afghanistan after the U.
But there are concerns about how those citizens will be able to leave if there is no functioning airport. Tens of thousands of at-risk Afghans, such as interpreters who worked with the U.
It is unclear what their fate will be but officials are concerned that the Taliban may retaliate against them. The Taliban have pledged to allow all foreign nationals and Afghan citizens with travel authorization from another country to leave Afghanistan, according to a joint statement issued by Britain, the United States and other countries on Sunday. For the past two weeks, the U. The Taliban are in talks with governments like Qatar and Turkey to seek assistance to continue civilian flight operations from there, the only way for many people to leave Afghanistan.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Sunday that repairs need to be made at Kabul airport before it can be reopened to civilian flights.
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