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US military begins final pullout amid Kabul terror threats

by Robert Burns
| August 28, 2021 11:03 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — On alert for new terror attacks, the U.S. military has begun its final withdrawal from Afghanistan in the closing stages of a frantic airlift of Americans, Afghans and others desperate to escape Taliban rule before the evacuation shuts down.

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