A former advisor to U.S. special operations in Afghanistan explains why he doesn't think the U.S. can remove the remaining Americans from the country.
the total number of Americans and Afghan nationals that it is aiming to evacuate in just six days.
The State Department has given 500 of the 1,500 Americans specific instructions on how to reach Hamid Karzai International Airport safely. The U.S. is still trying to contact the remaining 1,000, though the number who actually want to leave may be lower, according to the State Department.that the presence of U.S. forces has kept the numbers of ISIS-K, an Afghanistan-based affiliate of the terror group, down. Now, however, Jones said that without the pressure from U.S.
"It's now able to resurge in eastern Afghanistan and parts of the north, and it's built cell structures in various cities, so I think we're going to see a much more violent Afghanistan, including by groups like ISIS-K," said Jones.
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