U.S. Embassy in Kabul will be mostly evacuated within next 36 hours
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The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan will be evacuated of all but a handful of key personnel within the next 36 hours, and all American diplomats should be out of the country entirely by August 31, multiple security and diplomatic sources in Washington and Kabul told CBS News. The evacuation comes as a U.S. defense official says it could be just a matter of days before the Taliban takes control of the capital, a city with more than 4 million people.
The U.S. military has already sent thousands of troops to safely remove State Department staff from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. On Saturday, President Biden ordered another 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg to join the operation, bringing the total to 5,000. Those who remain at the embassy will be special agents from the Bureau of Diplomatic Security Service and top decision-makers, including the ambassador. Security engineers will also stay behind to continue destroying sensitive hard drives, taking down cameras and stripping the embassy of alarms.
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