U.S. says 105,000 people evacuated from Afghanistan since mid-Aug

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About 12,500 people were evacuated from Afghanistan on Thursday, raising the total number of evacuees amid the Taliban takeover of Kabul to roughly 105,000 since Aug. 14, the White House said on Friday.

Renewed evacuation efforts ramped up a day before the militant group entered the Afghan capital on Aug. 15. Since the end of July, about 110,600 have been evacuated, the White House said.

U.S. military forces, who have guarded the airport in Kabul, are due to withdraw by the Tuesday deadline set by President Joe Biden, leaving a vacuum.

 

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Many countries have participated in this evacuation... collaborative effort supported by our military. Problem: There are 20 million women in Afghanistan, every one of them at risk. We can't evacuate an entire nation.

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