We want to make sure that that does not happen, because if people lose faith and confidence in it...

We would do everything within our means to have their backs, and so would many other countries around the world.

We want to make sure that we are doing whatever we can to support these efforts.

It certainly runs counter to those goals, whenever there are civilian casualties, whenever there are unintended injuries or deaths.

We will stand by our commitments. We will stand by our commitments to Taiwan under the Taiwan Relations Act.

The Taliban made abundantly clear in many public statements, private statements to us, to others around the world that it was going to hold us to the deadline that the previous administration negotiated in terms of withdrawing the…

the department`s regular and close engagement with regional partners, particularly with Qatari authorities.

They said that they will let people with travel documents freely depart, we will hold them to that.

The military mission is over. A new diplomatic mission has begun.

We discussed how we will work together to facilitate the safe travel out of Afghanistan, including by reopening Kabul civilian airport as soon as possible.

We will continue our relentless efforts to help Americans, foreign nationals and Afghans leave Afghanistan if they choose. We believe there are still a small number of Americans under 200 and likely closer to 100, who remain in Afghanistan…

The war in Afghanistan was a 20-year endeavor. We must learn its lessons and allow those lessons to shape how we think about fundamental questions of national security and foreign policy.