There is less than a week until the U.S. military’s deadline to withdraw from the country.
“This is about real people, many scared, many desperate,” Blinken said, adding that he’d seen the reports of the 2-year-old daughter of an Afghan former translator for an American company who
Blinken said Wednesday that while evacuating Americans was a top priority, the U.S. was “committed to getting out as many Afghans at risk as we can,” including locally employed staff in the embassy, special immigrant visa program participants, as well as “other Afghans at risk.” “Let me be crystal clear about this: There is no deadline on our work to help any remaining American citizens who decide they want to leave to do so, along with the many Afghans who have stood by us these many years and want to leave. ... That will continue every day past Aug. 31,” he said, noting the Taliban have made commitments to provide safe passage to Americans, other foreigners and “Afghans at risk” going forward.
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