US President Biden authorises an additional 1,000 US troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of US troops to evacuate American personnel and their allies
President Joe Biden has authorised an additional 1,000 US troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of US troops to ensure what Biden called an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel.
Biden attributed much of the chaos unfolding in Afghanistan to former President Donald Trump's efforts to end the war, which Biden said created a blueprint that put US forces in a difficult spot with an emboldened Taliban challenging the Afghan government. Initially 1,000 troops were in place to aid with the withdrawal, and administration officials quickly judged that total to be insufficient.Total of 5,000-troop force
On Saturday, the Taliban captured Mazar-e-Sharif, a large heavily defended city in northern Afghanistan, and closed in on Kabul by taking the Logar province just to the south. That number has dropped to just under 1,000, and all but about 650 were scheduled to be gone by the end of the month; the 650 were to remain to help protect the US diplomatic presence, including with aircraft and defensive weapons at the Kabul airport.'Swift and strong' military response
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