At a briefing in Washington, U.S. officials said that approximately 3,500 troops were on the ground at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport as of Tuesday morning, with 500 more expected by the end of the day.
The U.S. military has secured the airport in Kabul and resumed flights evacuating civilians and diplomats after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Tuesday.
The effort will continue until Aug. 31, the deadline for President Biden's full military withdrawal from Afghanistan. About 100,000 people, including American citizens and Afghans who qualify for so-called special immigrant visas or SIVs, are believed to be seeking to leave Afghanistan.
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