More than 5,000 U.S. citizens have been evacuated from Kabul since August 14, the State Department spokesman has said - but some still cannot decide if they want to leave Afghanistan.
Sher Jan Ahmadzai, director of Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha, said some U.S. citizens of Afghan descent may stay behind because they are politically aligned with the Taliban and do not feel threatened. For others, he said, family ties can’t be broken.