US Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan to Be Completed by End August

The White House announced on Friday that US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan will be completed by the "end of August".

"We expect it to be completed by the end of August," press secretary Jen Psaki said.

US President Joe Biden on Friday revealed that there were no immediate plans for complete troop withdrawal from the country.

"No. We're on, we're on track exactly as to where we expect to be," Biden said.

President Biden had vowed to pull all American troops by September 11 which will be the twentieth anniversary of the attacks on the WTC attacks in New York and the Pentagon.

In the same vein, Germany completed its troop pull-out from Afghanistan, started in May, ending a nearly 20-year mission.

The announcement of the pull-out of German troops came as the U.S. aims to complete its own withdrawal by September 11.

“After nearly 20 years of deployment, the last soldiers of our Bundeswehr have left Afghanistan this evening,” German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said in a statement. “They are on the way back.”

“A historic chapter comes to an end, an intensive deployment that challenged and shaped the Bundeswehr, in which the Bundeswehr proved itself in combat,” Kramp-Karrenbauer added.