Media: US may evacuate its diplomats from Kabul by end-August

Three people knowledgeable of the situation said there are internal discussions underway about shuttering the US embassy in Kabul (as one option among others), with one person saying the mission could be evacuated by the end of the month, Report informs referring to Politico newspaper.

Another said there had been a continuous and fluid conversation about how many American diplomats are needed in Kabul in light of the danger.

The State Department didn’t deny an evacuation was being weighed.

Meanwhile, a new US military assessment says Kabul could fall to the Taliban within 90 days, and even as early as within a month, according to someone familiar with the intelligence - though this person also said it might take the militants up to six months to seize control of the entire capital city. “That’s how fluid the situation is,” a State official told NatSec Daily.

Details of the assessment, which included analysis from US Central Command, Defense Intelligence Agency, and CIA, were first reported by The Washington Post.