<span style="color: #222222;">The UK prime minister is expected to ask US President Joe Biden to keep American forces in Afghanistan beyond 31 August in order to allow evacuation flights to continue.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson would try to raise the prospect of seeing if the United States will extend the deadline at an online leaders meeting of the G7 group of wealthy nations on Tuesday.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Many thousands of people are crowded outside Kabul airport, desperate to leave after the Taliban swept to power.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The US intends to pull all troops out by the end of the month. Mr Biden said discussions were taking place about extending the deadline, but their hope is that they will not have to.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">He said, US troops had expanded the perimeter around Hamid Karzai International Airport as part of efforts to speed up evacuation efforts, and the Taliban had cooperated with the move.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">While UK government officials have said there is no fixed date for UK withdrawal, it is feared that without US troops on the ground the remaining allied forces will be unable to secure the area.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The UK has more than 1,000 Armed Forces personnel deployed in Kabul. </span><br />''  <br />