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"I am willing to throw it all away to say to my senior leaders 'I demand accountability.'"

Time is running out.

"A civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized if this continues on the trajectory it’s on right now."

About 18,000 Afghans have applied for visas.

“I don't think there's anyone who believes we'll be at zero by the end of the year,” an unnamed senior administration official told NBC.

A day after President Donald Trump tweeted that all U.S. troops in Afghanistan should be home by the end of the year, the silence coming from top military leaders was so intense that one could practically hear a mouse fart.

The Afghan government has neither been informed nor consulted about any U.S. military plan to draw down to 2,500 troops next year, an Afghan official told Task & Purpose on Wednesday.

Washington has made preparations to withdraw diplomats from Iraq after warning Baghdad it could shut its embassy, two Iraqi officials and two Western diplomats said, a step Iraqis fear could turn their country into a battle zone.

"Except at the beginning, we never really fought to win."

U.S. Central Command chief General Kenneth McKenzie said on Saturday about 500 U.S. personnel in east Syria are expected to resume operations against Islamic State in coming days and weeks.

"All will have to get out," Erdogan said. "The process will not end before they are out."

As of Sunday, President Trump had not ordered all US troops to withdraw from Syria.

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