Washington:
President Joe Biden on Friday mentioned there is no program for an imminent withdrawal of the final US troops in Afghanistan.
“No. We’re on, we’re on track exactly as to where we expect to be,” he told reporters at the White House, following developing speculation the final contingents have been due to leave inside the next handful of days.
Biden has set a deadline of September 11 for the final pullout of the handful of remaining troops, following 20 years of war.
Biden responded to issues that the internationally backed Afghan government may possibly immediately crumble to Taliban insurgents as soon as its foreign backers have totally left, saying they “have the capacity to be able to sustain government down the road.”
The US military is maintaining an “over the horizon capacity” which could bring firepower to assist the government, but the “Afghans are going to have to be able to do it themselves.”
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