Biden calls Afghanistan troop withdrawal deadline of May 1 ‘tough’
Associated Press
4 days ago
Soldiers attached to the 101st Resolute Support Sustainment Brigade load onto a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan. (1st Lt. Verniccia Ford/Army)
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden says that it will be “tough” for the U.S. to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but that the complete drawdown won’t take much longer.
The deadline to end America’s longest war six weeks from now was set under an agreement reached by former President Donald Trump and the Taliban, without the buy-in of the Afghan government.