KABUL, Aug 14 ― American troops have flown into Kabul to help evacuate embassy personnel and other civilians in the Afghan capital, a US official said today, a day after Taliban insurgents seized the country's second- and third-biggest cities. The Pentagon has said two battalions of Marines and.
KABUL Taliban insurgents have seized Afghanistan s second- and third-biggest cities, local officials said on Friday, as resistance from government forces crumbled and fears grew that an assault on the capital Kabul could be just days away.
The Afghan capital, Kabul, is not in an "imminent threat environment" despite sudden territorial gains by the Taliban across the country, a U.S. Pentagon