The US is considering relocating its Kabul embassy to the city's airport as the security situation in Afghanistan deteriorates
The United States is considering relocating its embassy to the Kabul airport amid the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan, a US official, Western diplomatic source and another source familiar with the situation told CNN.
The US is also expected to draw down some personnel from its diplomatic outpost in the Afghan capital, the US and Western source said. The US official said options are being weighed in real time but cautioned that the situation remains fluid. They indicated that decisions are likely to evolve in the days and weeks ahead given the rapidly changing situation on the ground."There's obviously a dramatically different tempo to the discussions currently under way.
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