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US orders big drawdown at Kabul embassy as troops leave

by Matthew Lee
| April 28, 2021 12:21 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Tuesday ordered a significant number of its remaining staff at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul to leave Afghanistan as the military steps up the pullout of American troops from the country.

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