BBC News published this video item, entitled “Afghanistan: Lyse Doucet on America’s looming deadline – BBC News” – below is their description.
“They know this window is going to close.”
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet speaks to Ros Atkins about the people at Kabul airport trying to get out of Afghanistan before American troops leave the country for good.
The US said it will leave by the end of August.
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Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.