State Department: Americans Still Being Evacuated from Afghanistan

Secretary of State Antony Blinken addresses a press conference during a ministerial council meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Stockholm on Dec. 2, 2021. Jonathan Nackstrand/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

The evacuation of American citizens from Afghanistan continues months after the withdrawal of U.S. troops, according to a State Department release Monday.

At the end of 20 years of war in Afghanistan that cost more than 172,000 lives, the U.S. troop withdrawal leading up to Aug. 31 was followed shortly by the collapse of the Afghan government and the takeover of the country by the Taliban.