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U.S. Estimates 1,500 Americans May Remain in Afghanistan: Blinken
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Aug 25, 20211:59Now PlayingThe U.S. knows of about 1,500 Americans who are still in Afghanistan but doesn’t believe all of them are seeking to leave the country, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.
U.S. diplomats have spoken to about 500 of those people and are “aggressively” trying to reach the others, Blinken said at the State Department on Wednesday. “We continue to be relentless in our outreach,” he added.
Blinken said U.S. officials have been hamstrung because not all Americans who traveled to Afghanistan over the past two decades registered with the embassy in Kabul. Others never removed their names from the embassy registry and the State Department must determine how many are actually American citizens, he said.
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