out more air strikes. this is without any real troops, not a lot of intelligence either, and this well time you have the taliban breathing down america s net and ordering them to get out by august the 31st. as i say, the us is confident that it can happen. that s a positive spin, if i can say it that way. they re saying they know this is controversial, but they have got the time, the resources and they will get out by august 31. will get out by august 31. nomia, thank ou will get out by august 31. nomia, thank you very will get out by august 31. nomia, thank you very much. the group know as is k said it had carried out an attack outside kabul airport on thursday that may have killed as many as 170 people, including 13 us troops. but who are they? earlier, i spoke to andrew mines, a research fellow at george washington university s program on extremism, who s been tracking is k for a number of years now.
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operate over afghanistan. hopefully, the situation will turn out that the taliban will actually contain terrorist groups are not allow them to have a sanctuary and to plan and launch attacks on their soil. when president biden confirmed that the deadline was not going to go beyond august the 31st, he said we went in not for nation building but to stop terrorism. if terrorism flourishes, it becomes politically very difficult for him to have pulled out in the money that the us has done. absolutely. it starts to look like a worse situation than what happened in iraq when the united states left because it could not reach an agreement with the iraqi government in 2011 that allowed its troops to stay and then had to return in 2014 after isis had overrun much of the country and was threatening baghdad.
president biden came in front of the cameras yesterday at the white house and said again that he is committed to this deadline to withdraw all us troops from afghanistan by august the 31st. they still believe they can get every american out of afghanistan who wants to leave by that deadline so the president is sticking to the deadline even when these attacks yesterday. he did say that there is some room, he is committed to remaining until every american is out who wants to get out. the military is also saying that they are working directly with the taliban to try and extend a perimeter around the airport. the taliban is responsible for securing the area around the airport, but officials know it remains a very dangerous situation there. how much olitical dangerous situation there. how much political pressure dangerous situation there. how much political pressure is dangerous situation there. how much political pressure is there dangerous situation there. how much political pressur
their functioning are functioning. but the level of theirfunctioning is incredibly their functioning is incredibly durable, theirfunctioning is incredibly durable, as you say. and it s largely based on the availability of medical supplies. and of course those hospitals and clinics in the more remote, rural areas, they are the hardest places to service right now. this is going to be a big challenge notches in the short term but in the long term as well. the health system is really going to take a significant hit because of recent events. and the hard work is really going to begin after august the 31st when a large part of the international community will depart. security is obviously going to be a major concern for you and your staff on the ground. how do you go about making sure you got humanitarian aid corridors? you need the cooperation notches of the taliban but also the other groups that operate in other parts of the country.