Pentagon says Afghan evacuations will continue through August 31
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Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the United States would stick to its deadline of withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan by August 31
The Pentagon rejected reports on Thursday that they are preparing to end evacuations from Afghanistan before this weekend, saying the operations from Kabul airport will continue until August 31. “Evacuation operations in Kabul will not be wrapping up in 36 hours. We will continue to evacuate as many people as we can until the end of the mission,” Defence Department Spokesman John Kirby said. Key U.S. allies France, Canada, Hungary, the Netherlands and others already announced they had or would soon halt their evacuation flights, and Germany was also expected to carry out its last flights by Friday, amid intelligence that suicide bombers were threatening the Kabul airport.More Related News