Afghanistan

The Americans trying to evacuate hundreds of Afghans and American citizens pleaded for action from the Biden administration.

So far about 90 people, a fraction of the roughly 34,000 flown to Ramstein to date, have requested asylum in Germany.

Blinken said the U.S. believes there are “somewhere around 100” American citizens still in Afghanistan who want to leave.

Over two decades, the U.S. and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people.

Rep. McCaul of Texas told “Fox News Sunday" that American citizens and Afghan interpreters were being kept on six planes.

They are skeptical of the estimate because it only includes American citizens who registered with the U.S. Embassy.

These evacuees are in the process of obtaining needed documents required to qualify under U.S law for immediate entry.

The Afghanistan war ended with an odd unity between sworn enemies — the Taliban and the Americans.

They will talk with leaders who are central to U.S. efforts to prevent a resurgence of extremist threats in Afghanistan.

The U.S. military will eventually be able to house as many as 50K Afghanistan evacuees at the eight bases around the country.