- "With the withdrawal the mission that we started 20 years ago, after 11 September 2001," General Kenneth McKenzie explained on Monday at a hearing at the Pentagon. During this time, McKenzie highlighted the death of Osama bin Laden and several al Qaeda members, but also the death of 2,461 Americans in the Asian country.
Thus, the United States has completed its evacuations by meeting the deadline set by the Islamic State (IS) for its evacuation. "I am here to announce that we have carried out the withdrawal process from Afghanistan and that we have terminated the mission of evacuating the most vulnerable Americans, foreigners and Afghans," he said. On the last flight from Kabul Airport was operated by Ross Wilson, acting U.S. ambassador. The United States has already announced that it is going to take the Afghan Embassy in the United Kingdom. Although he will not have permanent diplomatic representation, McKenzie has said that they will continue to fight the diplomatic route to find the Americans who are in Afghanistan and the Afghans who want to flee there.
In this regard, the general has said that since 14 August the United States troops have evacuated more than 79,000 civilians, including 6,000 Americans. With the help of international troops, some 123,000 people have left Afghanistan in recent hours.