‘Hundreds’ of US citizens left behind as troops leave Afghanistan

Published August 30, 2021 11:15pm ET



There were “hundreds” of Americans left behind in Afghanistan when U.S. troops departed for good on Tuesday morning local time.

The U.S. military and coalition forces evacuated more than `120,000 foreign nationals and at-risk Afghans under the newly created Taliban regime over the last couple of weeks, but they were unable to get every American who wanted to leave the country before President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline arrived.

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