The U.S. will send 3,000 extra troops to Afghanistan amid the drawdown from the Kabul embassy
The U.S. State Department will withdraw many staff members from its embassy in Afghanistan’s capital city, and the Pentagon will send military personnel to help with the departure, officials said Thursday, amid fears the Taliban could take control of Kabul within months.ASSOCIATED PRESSThe U.S.
Within the next two days, the U.S. Marine Corps and Army will send about 3,000 extra troops to Kabul’s airport to help embassy staff leave, a deployment Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby described as a “temporary mission with a narrow focus.”reports thousands of U.S. staff are slated to leave Kabul, which currently hosts about 5,000 U.S. troops and civilian staffers.
Price insisted the embassy will stay open and said the government will keep trying to evacuate Afghan citizens who assisted the United States, and the Pentagon will send about 1,000 troops to Qatar to process Afghan visa applications, Kirby said.
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