US sending more troops to Afghanistan for personnel drawdown
3 years, 4 months ago

US sending more troops to Afghanistan for personnel drawdown

Al Jazeera  

US President Joe Biden says his administration warned Taliban against any action putting US personnel at risk. The United States will send additional troops to Afghanistan to help draw down the American embassy in Kabul and remove personnel, President Joe Biden has announced, as the Taliban seized control of the country’s north in another major setback for the Afghan government. But Biden again defended his decision to pull US troops out of the country, saying: “I was the fourth president to preside over an American troop presence in Afghanistan – two Republicans, two Democrats. Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna, reporting from Washington, DC, said Biden’s troop deployment announcement indicates “that the Biden administration did not count on this happening, the massive Taliban advance”. “Clearly most observers believe the Biden administration had not put structures in place, had not thought this through, that there was going to be this massive Taliban resurgence.” Meanwhile, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday about the latest developments in the country, including “the urgency of ongoing diplomatic and political efforts to reduce the violence”.

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