Authorities in Kabul have now effectively lost most of northern and western Afghanistan and are left holding a scattered archipelago of contested cities also dangerously at risk.
Some US officials fear that the Taliban could take over Kabul within three months of the Aug 31 deadline.
The US signed the agreement with the Taliban in Doha on Feb 29, 2020, committing to a pull-out of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops by May 1, 2021 in exchange for security guarantees.
They included a promise by the militants to hold peace talks with the government in Kabul, to not attack the US or its interests, and to not support groups like Al-Qaeda in attacking the United States.
In the wake of the agreement, the Trump administration sharply cut the number of US forces inside Afghanistan and remained committed to the May 1 deadline, even as the Taliban accelerated its offensive against government security forces following the Doha deal.
Trump's troop reductions continued after he lost last November's election to leave the number at 2,500, along with some 16,000 civilian contractors, still in Afghanistan when Biden took office on Jan 20.
Biden paused further withdrawal for a review of policy, and in April announced that the pull-out would go ahead, pushing the deadline back initially to Sep 11, 2021, before moving it up again to Aug 31.
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