More than 5,000 Americans have been safely evacuated from Afghanistan, Maj Gen William Taylor says, as the 31 August deadline approaches for the US withdrawal.

A total of 111,000 people have been airlifted out of Afghanistan as part of the evacuation mission.

There are still about 5,400 at Kabul’s airport awaiting flights out, Taylor says.

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