Pentagon sends 3,000 troops BACK to Afghanistan to evacuate Americans and won’t say whether US will stay past August 31: State Dept announces Kabul embassy drawdown as Taliban captures 11 cities
Pentagon is sending troops back into Afghanistan to help evacuate some personnel from the US embassy amid the Taliban’s surging encroachment on the capital city of Kabul
Diplomats are weighing how soon they could have to totally evacuate the US embassy, where some 4,000 are employed
The State Department last week warned US citizens to get out of the war-ravaged nation immediately
Taliban have now seized control of 11 provincial capitals, two-thirds of the nation
Taliban fighters are going door-to-door and forcing young women in captured areas into sex slavery and executing Afghan forces who surrender