Evacuees plead for action: 'We are in some kind of jail'

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

WASHINGTON -- Veterans' groups, Democrat lawmakers and Afghans called Tuesday for urgent Biden administration action on a weeklong standoff that has left hundreds of would-be evacuees from Afghanistan desperate to board waiting charter flights out of the Taliban-ruled country.

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