Biden to contact families of 13 US service members killed in Kabul
CNN
President Joe Biden plans to contact the families of the 13 US service members who were killed in Thursday's suicide attack outside of Kabul's international airport, according to a senior White House official.
Planning is underway for the President to make those calls, but the White House is first working to ensure all of the next of kin notifications have taken place. The official said the next of kin notifications are "still ongoing." Biden called the troops "heroes" in remarks at the White House on Thursday and said he was "outraged as well as heartbroken."The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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