Afghanistan Crisis: US Returning 3,000 Combat Troops to Kabul, 1,000 to Qatar, 3,500-4,000 to Kuwait

 In what the Pentagon will not describe as a combat mission, roughly 3,000 Marines and soldiers will deploy to Kabul’s international airport in the next 24-48 hours with a “narrowly-focused” mission of safeguarding the withdrawal of all but a “core” of U.S. diplomatic personnel in the coming weeks.  Read