New U.S. military analysis warns that the country's capital, Kabul, could become isolated in 30 to 60 days and could fall to the militant group in 90 days, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC
But that future is increasingly grim, with fears of the government's collapse and all-out civil war. There are growing concerns for the U.S. personnel that will remain at the embassy in Kabul and the 650 U.S. troops who will stay to protect it, with planning underway for some time now about a possible evacuation, according to two other U.S. officials, who spoke to ABC News on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive plans.Murals are seen along the walls at the U.S.
The U.S. embassy's Emergency Action Committee is"no doubt ... meeting every day to review the current level of threat and whether any additional steps need to be taken to increase security, reduce the number of personnel, or, if deemed necessary, initiate a full evacuation," said Mick Mulroy, the former top Pentagon official for the Middle East who served in the CIA and U.S. Marines in Afghanistan.
Kirby declined to comment on the U.S. military analysis, but he told reporters that while the Taliban"keep advancing," there is still fight left in the Afghan security forces that the U.S. built, trained and equipped. "Right now what we see is an issue of leadership. It's both political and military leadership. We need to see Afghans' leaders united," Price told reporters at the State Department.U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and Qatar's envoy on counter-terrorism Mutlaq al-Qahtani walk down a hotel lobby in Qatar's capital Doha during an international meeting on the escalating conflict in Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2021.
Afghan Foreign Minister Mohammad Haneef Atmar said Wednesday that it is the U.S. and other powers that need to do more to"accelerate the negotiation process" and pressure the Taliban to participate in good faith,"backed up by real political, economic, maybe even enforcement measures."
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