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Mujda Tajdar of Palmer Township remained caught in Kabul, Afghanistan, late Wednesday, one of more than 4,000 U.S. citizens still in a county overrun by the Taliban.
U.S. officials are reluctant to provide an estimate of the one number that matters most in their stream of evacuation updates.
While the department of defense is getting the afghans to U.S. soil, where they go from there is up to resettlement organizations -- like Refugee Services of Texas.
President Biden said in remarks on Sunday that the hope is not to extend the deadline and to have completed the operation by then but there are ongoing discussions about whether to extend.
The U.S.-led evacuation of Americans, at-risk Afghans and others from the Kabul airport picked up speed this weekend.