WASHINGTON: With security quickly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States sent 3,000 additional soldiers to help evacuate several personnel from the US Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursday.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said one soldier and two marine infantry battalions would enter Afghanistan in the next two days to help at Kabul airport with the evacuation of the partial embassy.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry for Ned, said that diplomatic work would continue at the Kabul Embassy.
“Our first responsibility always protects the safety and safety of our citizens who serve in Afghanistan, and throughout the world,” said prices on the Briefing of the State Department, called the speed of the Taliban increase and instability that resulted in “.” The price insisted on Thursday’s steps should not be seen as pushing The Taliban who had been brave and said, “We are committed to supporting Afghanistan and his people.
The commitment remains.” But this step showed a lack of confidence by the provision of Biden in the ability of the Afghan government to provide sufficient diplomatic security in Kabul as a series of provincial capitals had fallen into the Taliban attack this week.
KIRBY said an additional 1,000 members of the Army-Army Assignment Unit would be to Qatar Gulf State to help with visa processing for the evacuation of former translators and other Afghans who have worked with Americans in Afghanistan.
And the army brigade combat team of up to 4,000 troops from Fortress Fortress North Carolina will go to Kuwait for standby if needed more troops for embassy missions.
Kirby emphasized the new spread of the mission while only focused on the withdrawal of embassies and helping the Department of Foreign Affairs accelerated visa processing for Afghan translators and others, not a step to engage in war again.
The US has attracted most of his troops and officially ended his role in the war on August 31.
Pentagon has maintained around 650 troops in Afghanistan to support US diplomatic security, including at the airport.
Afghan government forces fainted even faster than US military leaders who thought maybe just a few months ago when President Joe Biden ordered a full withdrawal.
The Taliban, who ruled the country since 1996 until the US forces stormed after the 9/11 attacks, arrested three more provincial capitals on Wednesday and two on Thursday, the 10th and 11rd rebels had taken effective control for them.
About two third-thirds of the country.
The rebels did not have an air force and were losing the number of trained Afghan defense forces in the US, but they had caught the area, including the third largest city in the country, Herat, at an amazing speed.
In new warnings to Americans in Afghanistan, the second has been issued since Saturday, the US Embassy in Kabul on Thursday urged US citizens to leave immediately.
This advisor was released before the announcement in Washington about reducing the limited staff at the embassy.
The United States continues to support the Afghan military with limited air strikes, but they have not made a strategic difference so far and is scheduled to end on August 31.
Biden can continue the air strike outside that date, but given his firm attitude at the end of his war, it seems impossible.
The latest American military assessment, taking into account the latest Taliban rise, said Kabul can be under rebel pressure in September and that the country can completely fall on the Taliban control in several months, according to a defense official who discusses internal analysis.
Wednesday with anonymity requirements.
Military officials witnessed a deterioration situation said that by far the Taliban had not taken steps to threaten Kabul.
But it is not clear whether the Taliban will wait until they get control over most countries before trying to seize the capital.
The security of US diplomatic corps has been discussed for months, even before the Taliban Blitz Battlefield.
The military has long has a variety of planning options to evacuate personnel from Afghanistan.
The options will be largely determined by the White House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The main component of the option is whether the US military will have unlimited access to Kabul International Airport, which allows personnel to be flown systematically from the capital.
In a colored environment, American forces may have to fight in and out if the Taliban has infiltrated the city.