overnight. the defense ministry tweeting this, saying the final flight carrying uk armed personnel left kabul. to all those at that served bravely under horrendous conditions most vulnerable of conditions, thank you. it is a stark reminder that some americans and thousands of afghan allies will indeed be left line. now the department of state yesterday informing us that approximately 5400 americans have been safely evacuated saying about 350 americans are still seeking to get out and they believe them to be already on their way or possibly already out of the country. the president has no public events here, pete, will, rachel. we re told he will meet with his national security team here at the white house, guys? rachel: thank you, griff. 350 americans still in afghanistan. 2000 were taken out or evacuated yesterday. pete: total people.
the horizon nature of the attack. you describe it as an drone strike. is this the sort of thing that could have been done with no u.s. troops inside afghanistan or is this the sort of drone strike for which it mattered there was u.s. troops on the ground? so, this was part of that across the horizon pension you mentioned or over the horizon pension. it s basically what it will look like is the u.s. will have a number of air assets largely unmanned. so drones that will be parked in a couple of neighboring areas. when they have there was a u.s. military presence in the country now. about 5400 troops at kabul airport. they re not really gathering intelligence in the same way that the u.s. or the u.s. even 2500 troops in there only a month or two before the draw down was completed. the troops were at kabul airport they were focussed on one mission and that s the
across the horizon presence that you mentioned, or over the horizon presence. so basically, what that will look like is the u.s. will have a number of air assets, largely unmanned, that will be parked in a couple of neighboring areas. and when they have we when there is a u.s. military presence still in the country right now, there is still about 5400 troops right now at kabul airport. but they are not really gathering intelligence in the same way that the u.s., even with 2500 troops and their only a month or two ago, before the drawdown was really completed. the troops were at kabul airport, they are focused on one mission and that is evacuation and maintaining security around the airport. people may be surprised to know that prior to the drawdown, when the u.s. still had a presents a larger presence in afghanistan, they shared a lot
bombing outside of the kabul airport that killed 13 american service members and 169 afghan civilians. now, officials are saying no civilians were killed in the u.s. drone strike. we want to give time, give courtney kube time to get to her camera position. she was just there covering the briefing. let me recap where we were. the major general taylor said that they would be there until the very end. i think the question remains, what is the very end? we stick with the august 31st deadline. there were 66 flights that left out of kabul yesterday with 6,800 evacuees. of the total evacuees in the past few days, 5,400 of those were americans. however, how many americans remain in kabul is a question we still have for the pentagon. there s a flight leaving from italy to philadelphia. they re working to increase the capacity to 50,000 of those siv