Joe Biden decided this Saturday to send 2,000 more troops than planned to Kabul to secure the evacuation of American diplomats and Afghan civilians, while the Taliban are at the gates of the Afghan capital.
The US president said in a statement that after consulting his national security advisers, “around 5,000 soldiers”, not 3,000, would be deployed to Kabul airport to facilitate evacuations after 20 years of conflict.
Threatening the Taliban with a swift and strong response to attacks against US interests, he defended his decision to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan and promised not to "bequeath" this war to another US president.
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