U.S. Struggles to Count Its Citizens in Afghanistan as Biden Weighs Withdrawal Delay

With logistics and ailments at the Kabul intercontinental airport rising extra dire, the Biden administration on Tuesday is scheduled to explore with allies a withdrawal from Afghanistan beyond an Aug. 31 deadline that remaining just eight days to evacuate countless numbers of men and women.

Compounding the dilemma are the issues borne of the extra immediate than predicted Taliban takeover. The State Section doesn’t know exactly how a lot of People in america are remaining on the ground, despite the fact that some have approximated that in between 10,000 and fifteen,000 had been there when the evacuations started, several U.S. officials said.

President Biden on Tuesday will satisfy pretty much with the leaders of the Team of Seven primary nations to explore coordination and evacuation strategies, as very well as the have to have for humanitarian assistance for Afghan refugees. On Sunday, Mr. Biden said he and his military services advisers had been discussing extending the Aug. 31 withdrawal deadline.

In response, the Taliban, through immediate talks with the U.S. in Kabul, said it would not realize any extension, nor would it guarantee that forces that stay in Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31 would not be subject to assault.

Mr. Biden’s national safety adviser, Jake Sullivan, said Monday that the variety of People in america on the ground is really hard to assess mainly because a lot of People in america didn’t sign up with the embassy when they arrived in Afghanistan, and a lot of didn’t deregister when they remaining. “Now, it’s our duty to uncover them,” Mr. Sullivan said.