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This image taken from a hilltop exhibits a common view of residential buildings in Kabul on August 14, 2021.
CNN
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President Joe Biden introduced the authorization of an extra direct deployment of 1,000 troops to Afghanistan in an announcement Saturday.
Biden stated he licensed the deployment “to make sure we can have an orderly and safe drawdown of US personnel and other allied personnel and an orderly and safe evacuation of Afghans who helped our troops during our mission and those at special risk from the Taliban advance.”
Biden’s authorization of 5,000 troops in his Saturday assertion included 1,000 who’re already on the bottom in nation, in accordance to a protection official. A battalion of 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division have been redirected to Kabul, as an alternative of their authentic standby place in Kuwait.
The Pentagon had beforehand introduced 3,000 further troops have been on their method, the protection official stated.
The 82nd Airborne troops redirected to Kabul have been initially going to be a part of up to 4,000 troops from the identical division going to Kuwait on standby, to be used if wanted.
The bulk of troops are anticipated in Kabul by the tip of the weekend.