The evacuation comes as a U.S. defense official says it could be just a matter of days before the Taliban take control of the capital.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan will be evacuated of all but a handful of key personnel within the next 72 hours, multiple security and diplomatic sources in Washington and Kabul told CBS News. The evacuation comes as a U.S. defense official says it could be just a matter of days before takes control of the capital, a city with more than four million people. The U.S. military has already to safely remove State Department staff from the U.
