The US public is overwhelmingly in favor of ending the war in Afghanistan, but a majority of Americans say they disapprove of the way President Biden is handling the troop withdrawal.

Local officials say 22,000 families are displaced due to the ongoing fighting in Kandahar over the past one month.

The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike group is currently in the Middle East to help support the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, the US Navy has announced.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg says the Afghan government and armed forces are strong enough to stand on their own feet without foreign troops to back them.

CENTCOM said work to move the forces and the military equipment out of Afghanistan had been roughly two to six percent completed by Tuesday.

Violence against Afghans has escalated in recent weeks.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital Kabul, hours after the US formally announced it would completely withdraw its troops from the West Asian country this year.