The United States of America is currently boosting its troop number in Afghanistan to 6,000 after the Taliban seized control of the capital city, forcing the Afghan President, Ashraf Gani to flee.
The State Department and Department of Defense said they were planning to secure Kabul’s airport for the safe departure of U.S. and allied personnel. The departments also said they wanted to speed up the evacuation of thousands of Afghan aid workers entitled to U.S. special immigrant visas.
“Over the next 48 hours, we will have expanded our security presence to nearly 6,000 troops, with a mission focused solely on facilitating these efforts and will be taking over air traffic control,” the departments said
When U.S President, Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops earlier this year, about 2,500 troops were left in Afghanistan. This new move by the US will see an additional 1,000 U.S. troops going to Afghanistan, just a day after U.S. President Joe Biden had ordered a prior reinforcement of 1,000 soldiers.
The deployment of 3,000 was announced last week, and 1,000 were already on the ground.
The U.S has been in Afghanistan since 2001, after the September 11 terrorist attack carried out by Al-Qaeda on U.S soil.
