Pentagon sends 3,000 troops BACK to Afghanistan to evacuate Americans and won’t say whether US will stay past August 31: State Dept announces Kabul embassy drawdown as Taliban captures 12 cities
- Pentagon is sending troops back into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the US embassy amid the Taliban’s surging encroachment on the capital city of KabulĀ
- Diplomats are weighing how soon they could have to totally evacuate the US embassy, where some 4,000 are employed
- The State Department last week warned US citizens to get out of the war-ravaged nation immediately
- Taliban have now seized control of 12 provincial capitals, two-thirds of the nation
- Taliban fighters are going door-to-door and forcing young women in captured areas into sex slavery and executing Afghan forces who surrenderĀ
The Pentagon is sending 3,000 troops back into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the US embassy amid the Taliban’s surging encroachment on the capital city of Kabul.
Those 3,000 troops, part of three infantry battalions, are in addition to the over 650 US service members still currently stationed in Afghanistan.
Another 3,500 to 4,000 reserve forces will be stationed in Kuwait on standby, and another 1,000 will go to Qatar to help with Special Immigrant Visa processing.