There’s no deadline for getting out the Americans who are still in Afghanistan after U.S. troops withdrew from the country, President Joe Biden said Tuesday. Biden, speaking publicly for the first time since the withdrawal, called the evacuation mission “an extraordinary success” as he pointed to the thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghans who were flown from Kabul on U.S. military or U.S.-facilitated flights. He then turned to the estimated 100 to 200 Americans who are still in the Taliban-held nation, appearing to pin some responsibility on them. “Since March, we reached out 19 times to Americans in Afghanistan with multiple warnings and offers to help them leave Afghanistan. All the way back as far as March,” he said while delivering remarks in Washington. Most of the Americans who stayed behind are dual citizens “who had earlier decided to stay because of their family roots,” he added …
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