Time.news – The first remaining US troops in Afghanistan have begun to leave the country, with full withdrawal expected by 31 August and evacuation operations actually entered their last week. This was reported by some American media, including CNN, which cites two sources in the Defense.
At this point, only “a few hundred” of the 5,800 soldiers deployed at the Kabul airport have left and the evacuation mission remains the focus of field operations. “The reduction in troops has no effect on the mission for now,” explained one of the sources.
The US president, Joe Biden, explained to his colleagues at the G7 his desire not to postpone the August 31 deadline for withdrawing from Afghanistan with the fact that there would be an “additional risk” in keeping troops in the country beyond the set date. . According to reports from the White House spokesman, Jen Psaki, the threat cited by Biden is that which comes from groups affiliated with ISIS.
The president “made it clear that every day of the field operations we add a risk to the troops, with the growing threats coming from Isis-K,” the statement read.
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