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Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks on September 11, 2001, and people are still being identified 20 years later.

Memorial services will be held in New York City and Pennsylvania to mark the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terror attack in the U.S.

"The insights we gather will help prevent future loss of American blood and treasure," the group of GOP senators wrote in a letter.

The Fox News host said the Pentagon and State Department "hate" Biden for ending the long conflict.

"How we got to this moment in Afghanistan will be analyzed and studied for years to come," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley told reporters.

In a speech Tuesday, President Joe Biden defended his decision to stick to this week's deadline to end America's longest war and pull troops from Afghanistan after nearly two decades.

"We believe we got the vast, vast majority of American citizens out, something to the tune of 6,000 of them," spokesperson John Kirby said Tuesday.

More than 122,000 people—Americans and Afghan allies—have been evacuated from the country in recent weeks.

Scheller was relieved of duty after posting criticism of the messy U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which China has repeatedly ridiculed.

"I am making [this video] because I have a growing discontent and contempt for my perceived ineptitude at the foreign policy level," the Marine officer said.

The U.S. evacuated about 12,500 people in the last 24-hour period, including 300 Americans, Army Maj. Gen. William D. Taylor said.

The bombings occurred in two places outside the airport, and were followed by gunmen firing into the crowd of people waiting to enter the airport. The latest totals indicated 12 U.S. service members and 60 Afghans were killed in the attack.

The Pentagon said Wednesday that U.S. military forces in Afghanistan are working hard to make the August 31 evacuation deadline.

"To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote in a memo.

The Pentagon called this figure the "best departure results since evacuation operations began" in Afghanistan.

Four military bases in New Jersey, Virginia, Texas and Wisconsin are preparing to temporarily house Afghans being evacuated from Afghanistan following the Taliban's return to power.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said this month that he'd seek a vaccine mandate from the president or upon FDA licensure, "whichever comes first."

"He has failed up more than anyone I can imagine," the Florida Republican said of the defense secretary.

"We do not believe it is exorbitantly high," said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby about the number of terrorists among those evacuating Afghanistan.

As of Thursday, the Pentagon was still unsure of how many American citizens were in Afghanistan. Military officials said they are hoping to move 5,000 to 9,000 people per day.

The Biden administration can't say whether U.S. forces are facing a strict deadline to leave Afghanistan by a certain date to prevent the Taliban or other insurgents from attacking.

The men used code. "Architecture" meant the World Trade Center, "arts" was the Pentagon, "law" was the U.S. Capitol building, "politics" was the White House.

"There is no way humanly possible that you can keep our promise, the one that the president has promised, by August 31," the Democrat congressman said.

The United States has put up a "Herculean" effort to evacuate thousands of Americans and allies from Afghanistan, but thousands more remain in limbo, the Pentagon said.

John Kirby, the press secretary for the Department of Defense, said there could be anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 U.S. citizens near Afghanistan's capital.

"One of the things that we couldn't anticipate and didn't anticipate was the degree to which Afghan forces capitulated, sometimes without a fight," said Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby.

"We don't have a president," the reporter said. "We don't have anything...people they don't know what to do."

Abdulhaq Azad, the press secretary of the Afghan embassy in India, later said the account had been hacked

"I think our allies here in the U.S. have also lost the psychological war...the story back at home is, they are abandoned," Adela Raz said Friday.

As the U.S. works to wind down a war that has spanned nearly two decades and remove its troop presence from the country, the Taliban is taking over Afghanistan.