After President Joe Biden stated that US-led evacuations will end next week, Afghans faced an increasingly desperate race to flee life under the Taliban. Since August 14, more than 80,000 individuals have been evacuated, yet massive groups continue to gather outside Kabul airport, seeking to flee the prospect of retaliation and repression in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.
Despite concerns from European allies that not all vulnerable Afghans would be able to leave by August 31, Biden stated Tuesday that the US would keep to its August 31 deadline to entirely withdraw its troops.
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