Taliban US govt helps 4 citizens leave Afghanistan overland
Kabul/Washington: The United States government has facilitated the departure of four Americans from conflict hit Afghanistan via an overland route to a third country, media reports said on Tuesday.
"Our Embassy greeted the Americans as they crossed the border into the third country," a senior State Department official told CNN.
The official confirmed that these are the first four Americans that "we've facilitated in this manner" since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan.
They are a woman and her three children from Amarillo, Texas, according to Rep. Markwayne Mullin, an Oklahoma Republican, who has been assisting an American non profit-funded group of former special forces, military, contractors and others who are working to get Americans and Special Immigrant Visa holders out of Afghanistan.
Mullin told CNN he had spoken with the woman multiple times Monday, including before and after she had exited Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has been witnessing conflict ever since Taliban started occupying the country since foreign forces started leaving the nation.
On Aug 15, Taliban forces captured Kabul city, takuing control over Afghanistan.
The US forces exited Afghanistan on Aug 31.
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