EXCLUSIVE: The State Department has arranged a means out of Afghanistan for the last remaining U.S. citizens who are seeking help departing, a senior official tells ABC News.
ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz explains what role the U.S. has played in Afghanistan in recent years and why the Taliban wants to take over the country.The State Department has arranged a means out of Afghanistan for the last remaining U.S. citizens who are seeking help departing, a senior State Department official told ABC News.
"This mission will continue. These numbers are nothing more than a snapshot on any given day. It's not that we're closing up shop, but we are marking an important milestone," the senior State Department official said.Passengers board a Qatar Air aircraft bound to Doha at Kabul airport on Nov. 4, 2021.
The agency has previously defended that difference by saying the situation on the ground was constantly shifting. The senior State Department official dismissed some of that"bad-faith" criticism as"tinged with politics and partisanship" and repeated the administration's commitment to giving all U.S. citizens who want out of Afghanistan a way out.Many Americans who were left behind by the massive evacuation operation in August have also expressed anger and outrage about what they describe as abandonment.
For months now, there have been negotiations among the Qatari and Turkish governments, the Taliban's interim government and private firms about reopening Kabul's international airport. But hope for a swift reopening seems to have faded, in particular because of damage to the airport during the August evacuations and concerns over airport security.
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