300 US citizens still seeking evacuation from Afghanistan

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that determination are astir 300 American citizens inactive seeking to permission Afghanistan arsenic the deadline for last evacuations from the state is rapidly approaching.

Blinken told ABC News connected Sunday that the U.S. is "actively moving to assistance them get to the airport, get connected a level and get retired of Afghanistan."

According to the Associated Press, Blinken has besides confirmed that the U.S. has the capableness to evacuate those Americans up of the deadline but noted that the airdrome could look different onslaught successful the coming hours.

"This is the astir unsafe clip successful an already extraordinarily unsafe ngo these past mates of days," Blinken said, according to the AP.

The AP besides reports that nationalist information advisor Jake Sullivan has further confirmed that the U.S. should beryllium capable to evacuate those remaining.

"We person the capableness to person 300 Americans, which is astir the fig we deliberation are remaining, travel to the airdrome and get connected planes successful the clip that is remaining," Sullivan said. "We moved retired much than that fig conscionable (Saturday). So from our constituent of view, determination is an accidental close present for American citizens to come, to beryllium admitted to the airdrome and to beryllium evacuated safely and effectively."

Blinken volition present remarks Monday day and apt supply an update connected however galore Americans stay up of the deadline.

President Joe Biden has promised to evacuate each American citizens who privation to permission Afghanistan up of the Aug. 31 deadline and has opted not to support troops successful the state beyond that day, citing the imaginable for threats from some the Taliban and the Islamic State group.

On Thursday, 13 subject members and 169 Afghans were killed by a termination bomber who targeted a ample assemblage adjacent 1 of the gates astatine the crowded Kabul airport. Early Monday morning, the airdrome was seemingly the people of a series of rocket strikes, which landed successful a adjacent neighborhood.