According to Fox news
The U.S. military has launched two drone strikes against Taliban positions in northern Afghanistan, a U.S. defense official told Fox News on Friday.
The strikes came hours before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is set to meet President Biden at the White House Friday afternoon.
An unknown number of Taliban fighters were killed in Baghlan and Kunduz provinces, where the strikes took place.
Three more districts fell to the Taliban overnight.
Meanwhile, Afghan forces took back six other districts elsewhere in the country in the past 24 hours, according to TOLO News in Kabul.
Some U.S. officials think Kabul could fall to the Taliban in a matter of months after American forces withdraw.
The U.S. military is preparing to pull most of its remaining forces from Afghanistan in the coming weeks, well ahead of the 9/11 deadline announced by President Biden.
The U.S. government is also scrambling to evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters and their families “before we complete our military drawdown,” a senior administration official told Fox News on Thursday.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the details surrounding the evacuations and relocations are not yet set in stone.
“We just don’t know, it will be done on a case by case basis,” he said in answer to questions on where the Afghan allies will be sent.
Kirby said the State Department is taking the lead on safely relocating translators and Afghanis that assisted the U.S. during the nation’s 20-year long war in the Middle East.
“It’s going to take a whole inter-agency effort to do this,” the Pentagon spokesman said, adding the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security will play a role in assisting mass evacuations.
But lawmakers say time is running out to complete the evacuation.