Washington: US President Joe Biden on Sunday said he was discussing with his military official regarding the extension of the evacuation mission in Afghanistan, beyond the August 31 deadline.
Biden made this comment during the address of the White House in the midst of the country’s large-scale evacuation efforts in a war-hit country.
“The discussion occurred between us and the military about extending (evacuation deadlines August 31), our expectations are, we do not have to extend.
But there will be a discussion, I suspect how far we are in the process,” said US President Joe Biden said during The address of the White House “We know that terrorists may try to exploit the situation and target innocent Afghan or American forces.
We maintain continuous vigilance to monitor and disturb the threat of any source, including.
ISIS and Afghan Affiliates known as Isis-k, “Biden added.
After the takeover of the fast Taliban Kabul last week, the US had scrambled to evacuate America and Afghan partners from the country.
Biden told that the US had extended the safe zone around Kabul International Airport.
“We have made a number of changes, including extending access around the airport and safe zone,” said Biden during Presser.
Previously on Friday, Biden had mentioned the evacuation of Afghanistan ‘the most difficult and the biggest uslift’ ever in history.
Biden also raised concerns on Sundays on Islamic countries that submitted a threat when American forces tried to evacuate thousands of US citizens and Afghan ally from Afghanistan.
Biden noted that the terror group was “ swear the enemy of the Taliban ” and said that the troops A.S.
The longer on land increases the possibility of the group will try to attack innocent civil and American personnel near Hamid Karzai International Airport.
The U8 Embassy in Kabul has warned Americans to avoid traveling to the airport partly because of concerns about Islamic fighters.
The extremist group has long expressed the desire to attack American and US interest abroad and have been active in Afghanistan for several years, carrying out waves of terrible attacks, mostly on Shia minorities.
The group has been repeatedly targeted by airstrikes a.s.
In recent years, and facing a Taliban attack.