Australia to close Kabul embassy as US troops withdraw: PM

Australia will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan within days, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Tuesday, as fears grow about security in the capital Kabul following a US troop withdrawal.

Australia will shutter its embassy in Afghanistan within days, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Tuesday, as fears grow about security in the capital Kabul following a US troop withdrawal.

Morrison said the facility would close on May 28 -- in three days -- "in light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan" and the embassy would be reopened "once circumstances permit". arb/dm/jah