Article 5NGG4 Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond 31 August deadline

Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond 31 August deadline

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Joe Biden has suggested there was no way for the US to withdraw from Afghanistan without chaos ensuing", and said US troops may stay past a 31 August deadline to evacuate Americans there.

As critics in the US and abroad questioned his handling of the withdrawal, the president said in his first on-camera interview since the Taliban took Kabul that troops would stay in the country to get American citizens out.

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