President Biden vows sustained help as Afghanistan drawdown nears Share Updated: 8:44 PM EDT Jun 25, 2021 By ERIC TUCKER, BEN FOX and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
President Biden vows sustained help as Afghanistan drawdown nears Share Updated: 8:44 PM EDT Jun 25, 2021
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Show Transcript Well, it s good to see two old friends we met many, many times in Afghanistan for long hours and they re welcome here. The partnership between Afghanistan and United States is not ending. It s going to be sustained and r truth may be leaving, but support for Afghanistan is not ending in terms of support and maintenance of their helping to maintain their military as well as economic and political support. And they have to, Afghans are gonna have to decide their future what they, what they want, what they want. But it won t be for lack of us being helped. There s gonna be a and the senseless violence that has to stop. But it s going to be ver
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House Demands Biden Provide Detailed Evacuation Plan for Afghans Who Helped US Forces - Report
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The US is expected to evacuate Afghan citizens who served as interpreters, drivers, security guards and embassy workers for the US troops, as well as their families, to third countries to avoid them risking their lives while awaiting their immigration visas to be processed in Afghanistan.
US lawmakers have questioned the White House s plan to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghan nationals who helped the US forces in Afghanistan as crucial questions in this process remain unanswered, The Hill reported on Saturday.