U.S. Estimates 1,500 Citizens in Afghanistan Ahead of Deadline
- Secretary of State gives numbers ahead of Aug. 31 date
- Biden has resisted calls to extend the withdrawal from Kabul
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The U.S. knows of about 1,500 Americans who are still in Afghanistan but doesn’t believe all of them are seeking to leave the country, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
U.S. diplomats have spoken to about 500 of those people and are “aggressively” trying to reach the others, Blinken said at the State Department on Wednesday. “We continue to be relentless in our outreach,” he said.