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As the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan last year, Marine Corps veteran Elliot Ackerman was frantically rebuilding a network of old allies to help desperate Afghans escape.
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American authorities had been alerted that Afghanistan's air force did not have the capabilities to survive after a U.S. withdrawal.
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The website, AfghansInSA.org, is a clearing house for donation and volunteer opportunities and resources for newly arriving Afghans. About 300 Afghan refugees are expected to arrive in San Antonio in the coming weeks.
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More than 2,400 U.S. service members were killed in the Afghanistan war. The Pentagon said Army Staff Sgt. Ryan C. Knauss — who died from injuries suffered in the Kabul Airport bombing — was likely the final one.
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The last U.S. military plane left Afghanistan late Monday, U.S. officials announced, a coda to 20 years of war. But the departure also presents a crisis of hope for Afghans in San Antonio. Many are in the U.S. on special immigrant visas, but their families haven’t made it out.
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The final evacuation flight brought to a close the longest war in U.S. history. The withdrawal leaves the future of Afghanistan in disarray and uncertainty under renewed Taliban rule.
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A panicked exodus of people trying to enter Kabul's international airport turned deadly on Sunday, showing that danger still posed to those trying to leave the Taliban's takeover of the country.
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The U.S. government's goals frequently shifted, creating "20 one-year reconstruction efforts, rather than one 20-year effort," an inspector general's report says.
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President Biden addressed the nation after images from the airport in the Afghan capital showed desperate people fleeing before the Taliban advance. He said he stands by his decision to withdraw.
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At least 100 Afghan refugees are expected to arrive in Austin this week, with more coming later.