US President Joe Biden received on Sunday the bodies of US soldiers who were killed in a suicide attack during the evacuation of civilians from the Afghan capital Kabul airport last Thursday, while the US State Department said that the Taliban provided guarantees to allow the evacuations to be completed.
Biden and his wife, Jill, attended a funeral ceremony at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, and then met the families of soldiers killed in the attack.
The suicide attack - carried out by the Islamic State outside Kabul airport - killed dozens of Afghans and 13 American soldiers.
US officials said that US forces launched an attack in the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting a car suspected of being bombed and on its way to carry out a suicide attack.
The US State Department published a statement on the evacuation process from Afghanistan, which was signed by dozens of countries and organizations.
According to the US State Department, the United States and 97 other countries have agreed with the Taliban to allow evacuations to continue even after the US withdrawal is completed on Tuesday, August 31.
The statement stressed that the signatories are determined to enable their citizens in Afghanistan, Afghans who have worked with them, and those who feel there is a threat to their lives, to travel outside the country.
The statement pointed out that the Taliban provided guarantees that all foreigners and Afghans who obtained a travel visa would be allowed safe access to the designated departure points for travel outside Afghanistan.
The statement confirmed the continuation of granting travel licenses to the Afghans involved in the evacuation process, referring to what it called the Taliban's public statements confirming these understandings.
The most dangerous period
In an interview with ABC, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said that this is "the most dangerous period in our current mission" in Afghanistan, noting that 300 Americans said they wanted to leave Afghanistan, and that his country was working to help them reach Kabul airport. .
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said there will be no US diplomatic presence in Afghanistan after August 31.
Sullivan said the Taliban had said privately that they would allow safe passage for Americans and Afghan collaborators after the mentioned date.
He added that America is able to thwart what he described as terrorist threats in Afghanistan without a permanent military presence, but at the same time he pointed out that those he described as terrorist groups in Afghanistan do not have the ability to launch attacks abroad.
Sullivan said the US administration would consider carrying out further strikes and other operations against the "Islamic State in Khorasan."