The United States will redistribute troops to the Kabul airport in order to ensure the evacuation of part of its embassy personnel in Afghanistan, which will be reduced before the advance of the Taliban, the Department of Foreign Affairs announced on Thursday. American state.
At the same time, Washington will speed up the evacuation of interpreters and other Afghan aides from the US military, who could be threatened with retaliation should the Taliban take power, with “daily” flights, the door told reporters. of the American diplomacy Ned Price.
“The embassy remains open,” “it is not a total evacuation,” he said, recalling that the US government had begun to withdraw some of its personnel from Kabul in April, when President Joe Biden had announced that the withdrawal of all Afghanistan’s international forces would be completed before the end of the summer.
But “the acceleration of the Taliban’s military offensives and the consequent increase in violence and instability across Afghanistan is very worrying,” he said.
“As a result, we are further reducing our civilian presence in Kabul, in light of the evolving security situation,” he explained, referring to an evacuation of some of the US diplomats “in the coming weeks.”
“To facilitate this reduction, the Defense Ministry will temporarily deploy additional troops at the international airport,” despite the continued withdrawal from Afghanistan, said Ned Price.
