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Pace Of Evacuation From Afghanistan Is Picking Up, Will It Be Enough?

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Published August 24, 2021 at 12:06 PM CDT

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Sunil Varghese of the International Refugee Assistance Project about the need to speed up the process of evacuating tens of thousands of Afghans from the airport in Kabul by next Tuesday when the U.S. military mission is scheduled to end.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.