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President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden authorized on Saturday an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan, raising to roughly 5,000 the number of U.S. troops to ensure what Biden called an “orderly and safe drawdown” of American and allied personnel.

As Taliban gains, Biden defends U.S. exit from Afghanistan The withdrawal is ahead of schedule – expected to be complete by Aug. 31. By Chris MegerianTribune News Service Share WASHINGTON — President Biden on Thursday defended his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, challenging any critic to say whether “you would send your own son or daughter” to continue fighting in America’s longest war. “I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan with no reasonable expectation of achieving a different outcome,” he said during remarks from the East ...

By PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: May 19, 2021 KABUL, Afghanistan — The son of one of Afghanistan’s most renowned guerrilla leaders is working to unite disparate militias against the Taliban, fearing the group may try to regain control of the country after U.S. and coalition forces exit. Ahmad Massoud, 32, whose father was the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, said over 100,000 militia leaders, fighters and other stakeholders in northern Afghanistan have so far pledged support to his movement. But by operating separately from the government, cr...

One of the legacies of the Afghanistan war ought to be “greater humility about what the best military on the planet can achieve and more thoughtfulness about how we deploy it.”