United States President, Joe Biden, defends withdrawing US soldiers from Afghanistan, calling it a choice between “leaving or escalating”.
President Biden calls the evacuation efforts an “extraordinary success” saying no other nation could achieve it.
The final American plane departed just after midnight on Tuesday.
Taliban fighters have been seen posing in abandoned US aircraft at Kabul airport.
US officials said together with allies, they managed to evacuate some one hundred and twenty-three thousand people before the August 31st deadline.
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