There are active discussions about a further drawdown of the US embassy in Kabul among State Department officials, sources say, as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan.
Those gains -- which have occurred much more rapidly than many US officials expected -- have made the situation more urgent and sped up the conversations that have been happening for some time now, one source said. US officials are no longer talking about six months as the likely timeline for the government of Afghanistan to collapse; they now believe it could happen much more quickly, the two sources said.
Maintaining diplomatic supportState Department officials have repeatedly said they intend to maintain their diplomatic footprint in Kabul after the US troop withdrawal is complete. However, a further reduction of personnel at the embassy will quickly fortify concerns that the US is leaving Afghanistan while it descends into a possible civil war, and bring into question the Biden administration's claim that they will be able to maintain diplomatic support for the Afghan government.
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