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Biden says US troops may stay in Afghanistan beyond 31 August deadline

US president tells ABC: ‘We’re going to stay until we get them all out’ amid continued chaotic scenes at Kabul airport as thousands seek to flee

Joe Biden has said US troops may stay past a 31 August deadline so as to evacuate all Americans from Afghanistan, and defended the withdrawal, saying there was no way for the US to pull out “without chaos ensuing”.

As critics in the US and abroad questioned his handling of the withdrawal, the president said in his first on-camera interview since the Taliban took Kabul that troops would stay in the country to get American citizens out.

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