What is happening with the Afghan evacuations?

A US Marine provides security for evacuees boarding a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/US Air Force via AP)

More than 80,000 people have been evacuated from Afghanistan since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on August 14.

It is the largest US airlift in history. While the pace has picked up in recent days, it is still a chaotic scramble as people seek to escape. Afghans trying to reach the airport face a gauntlet of danger, and there are far more who want to leave than will be able to do so. Those who do make it out will face the many challenges of resettlement, either in the US or somewhere else. And time is running out. President Joe Biden set an August 31 deadline to complete the US-led evacuation.