President Joe Biden said Wednesday in an interview with ABC News George Stephanopoulos that U.S. troops will stay in Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31 if necessary to evacuate any remaining Americans who wish to leave the country.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday that he plans to slash the number of U.S. forces stationed in Germany, where the heavy American military footprint was a bulwark to the Soviet Union and a way station for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.