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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday the U.S. was working with the Taliban to resolve the matter.

Three thousand are heading to Kabul, with another 3,500 in Kuwait and 1,000 to Qatar.

The State Department said it is widening the scope of Afghans eligible for refugee status in United States.

Family members are accompanying the interpreters, translators and others on the flights out.

Some of the symptoms are similar to those first reported by U.S. diplomats and spies in Havana, Cuba, in 2016 and 2017.

The Biden administration informed Congress that the Afghans will be housed at Fort Lee.

The coalition is hoping to stabilize areas liberated from the Islamic State, repatriate and hold foreign fighters accountable and combat extremist messaging.

Staffing levels at the Kabul embassy have already been significantly reduced pending the completion of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.

The decision means only one major arms control treaty between the nuclear powers — the New START treaty — remains in place.

As Russia assumed the chairmanship of the Arctic Council, the U.S. rallied other members to oppose Moscow’s plans to set maritime rules in the Northern Sea Route.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russia’s longtime Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plan to talk Wednesday on the sidelines of an Arctic Council meeting in Reykjavik.

Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command, said Tuesday the administration remains committed to keeping a functioning embassy in Kabul.

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