U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, center right, walks with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar, center left, at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, April 51, 2021.

Blinken said the State Department is in touch with “about 100 American citizens” in Afghanistan who are seeking to leave, but he was unable to provide a number for legal permanent residents.

Blinken says about 100 Americans still in Afghanistan wish to leave, but warns that number is "very fluid." "We are in direct contact with this group," and says some are changing their mind from ...

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Blinken, who is one of a handful of outstanding key officials from which the panel sought testimony for its probe of the Afghanistan withdrawal, acknowledged that he hadn’t read the full report.

President Biden laughed off a reporter’s question about leaving Americans behind in Afghanistan. Drew Angerer/Getty Images. Blinken said that in addition to the 500 US citizens seeking help ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken phoned it in — literally and figuratively — Monday for his first appearance before Congress since the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, testifying virtually ...

Blinken and Democratic lawmakers emphasized that when Biden came into office, he faced a May 1 deadline negotiated by Trump officials for the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Blinken argued that the Biden administration’s hands were tied in the drawdown from Afghanistan because of former President Trump’s controversial 2020 agreement with the Taliban to pull out ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told CNN on Tuesday that the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will concentrate the minds of “free riders” in the region about their interests in keeping the ...

Blinken said the State Department is in touch with “about 100 American citizens” in Afghanistan who are seeking to leave, but he was unable to provide a number for legal permanent residents.