America will increase the number of its soldiers in Afghanistan to 6000

The US will increase the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 6,000 within the next 48 hours. It will also take thousands of its citizens out of the country safely in the next several days.

The US State Department and Defense Department have said this in a joint statement. “Over the next 48 hours, we have increased our security presence to approximately 6,000 troops, whose mission is solely focused on facilitating these efforts and taking over air traffic control,” the statement said.

Significantly, the Taliban Islamic campaign entered Kabul on Sunday, after which incumbent President Ashraf Ghani announced his resignation and left the country. Mr Ghani said his decision was to stop the violence as the terrorists had come with the intention of attacking the capital.

“Tomorrow and in the coming days, we will move thousands of American citizens living in Afghanistan, as well as locally employed employees of the US mission in Kabul and their families, and other particularly vulnerable Afghan citizens out of the country,” the US departments said. do. We will expedite the evacuation of thousands of Afghans eligible for US special migrant visas, of whom about 2,000 have already arrived in the US in the past two weeks.