Some 600 are still in Afghanistan on Aug. 30, one day ahead of the U.S. withdrawal deadline, according to U.S. military officials. Roughly 5,400 of the 122,000 people who the U.S. military has evacuated, or facilitated the evacuation of, in recent weeks, were Americans, Pentagon officials told reporters on Monday. Some 6,000 U.S. citizens were in Afghanistan as of mid-August, a top U.S. official said last week. “We continue to have the capability to evacuate and fly out [people] until the very end,” Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor, deputy director of the Joint Staff For Regional Operations, told reporters in Washington. Pentagon officials said the State Department would have an exact count of Americans that are still in communication with government workers ahead of the deadline. The White House and the State Department did not respond to requests for more information. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday pegged the numberĀ of …
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