US ‘has capacity to evacuate 300 Americans remaining in Afghanistan’

No group immediately claimed the attack.

In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a Marine with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) carries a baby as the family processes through the evacuation control center at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 28, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

The US has the capacity to evacuate approximately 300 US citizens remaining in Afghanistan who want to leave before Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said.