Amid Kabul chaos, UK calls on US to extend August 31 deadline

Johnson will ask Biden to extend evacuation efforts beyond the troop withdrawal deadline at Tuesday’s G7 talks.

As chaos continues to grip Afghanistan, the United Kingdom will be calling on the United States to keep American troops in the war-torn country beyond Washington’s August 31 deadline, so evacuation flights out of Kabul airport can continue. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to ask US President Joe Biden to extend Washington’s self-imposed deadline on Tuesday, at an emergency G7 meeting of leaders on Afghanistan. The virtual talks come as Afghans and foreigners continue to fill Hamid Karzai International airport in desperate bids to flee the Taliban’s takeover.