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‘US to evacuate Afghan interpreters next month’
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09 July 2021
WASHINGTON, 09 July 2021, (TON): The Biden administration in August will fly thousands of Afghan interpreters and their families out of the country to safety ahead of the U.S. military’s full withdrawal from Afghanistan, the White House confirmed.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that the administration had stood up an operation to physically relocate the Afghan nationals before the U.S. military mission concludes but she did not say specifically where they would be relocated.
She said “the administration’s operation has identified U.S. facilities outside of the continental United States, as well as third countries. Because of security reasons, we’re not going to outline and detail at this point where those are.”
The U.S. is considering sending the Afghans to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar or Guam as they wait for their visas to the U.S. to be processed.
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