The United States will redeploy troops to Kabul airport in order to secure the evacuation of some of the staff from its embassy in Afghanistan, which will be reduced in the face of the advance of the Taliban, the department of Afghanistan announced on Thursday. 'American state.
At the same time, Washington will speed up the evacuation of interpreters and other Afghan auxiliaries from the US military, who could be threatened with reprisals in the event of the Taliban taking power, with "daily" flights, the door told reporters. - speech of American diplomacy Ned Price.
"Not a total evacuation"
"The embassy remains open", "it is not a question of a total evacuation", he assured, recalling that the American government had started to recall some of its staff from Kabul in April, when the President Joe Biden had announced that the withdrawal of all international forces from Afghanistan would be completed before the end of the summer.
But "the acceleration of the Taliban's military offensives and the resulting 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 evolution of the security situation," he explained, referring to an evacuation of some of the American diplomats "in the coming weeks" .
"In order to facilitate this reduction, the Defense Ministry will temporarily deploy additional troops at the international airport", despite the continued withdrawal from Afghanistan, Ned Price said.
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