U.S. officials warned that the remaining days before the Aug. 31 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan will be the “most dangerous” stretch of the mission yet.
but said"clearly it's in the thousands."
"We didn't see the level of resistance by the Afghans to hold some territory, some bases and unfortunately, those were bases that the Afghans, didn't hold," he said.Biden says the Taliban are 'not good guys.' So why is the U.S. cooperating with them against ISIS-K?Evacuation flights from Afghanistan resumed with new urgency on Friday, a day after two suicide bombings targeted the thousands of people desperately fleeing a Taliban takeover.
He said the military plans to conduct an investigation to determine what went wrong. "It will be a very complete, thorough investigation," Kirby said.The Pentagon said Friday that 5,400 people are awaiting to depart Afghanistan, after thousands were evacuated from the country in the last 24 hours.
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