President Joe Biden on Monday ordered an additional 1,000 troops into Afghanistan as the Taliban sweep through the embattled nation.
The new reinforcements are from the 82nd Airborne, the United States’s crisis response force, according to multiple reports. The additional boots bring the total American soldier count to 7,000, a number that has continually increased since late last week.
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