Shocking Taliban Now Controls 85% of Afghanistan as U.S. Troops Exiting.
Recently the officials of Taliban on Friday claimed that 85% of Afghanistan is in control, after seizing key border crossings with Iran and Turkmenistan.
Taliban: Following a sweeping offensive launched as U.S. troops pulled out of the war-torn nation. Hours after president Joe Biden issued a Staunch defense of the U.S. withdrawal, the Taliban said it’s fighters had seized two vital border crossings in western Afghanistan completing an Arc of territory from the Iranian border to the frontier with China.
This week more than 1,000s Afghan troops fled into Kazakhstan in the face of a Taliban onslaught. The Kabul government has reportedly dismiss the Taliban’s gains as having little strategic value, but the seizure of multiple border crossings along with mineral-rich areas will likely feel the groups coffers which several sources of new revenue.
Taliban in Russia
In Moscow, visiting delegation of Taliban officials said they control about 250 of Afghanistan’s out of 398 districts, The claim impossible to independently verify and distributed by the government at a news conference in Moscow on Friday, Taliban officials were about to take all necessary measures to prevent the terror group Islamic state from operating in its territory and also said it will try to wipe out drug production in the country.
The move is viewed as an attempt by the insurgent group to address concern in the Kremlin that, Islamic extremist groups may Enter neighboring former of your state like Kazakhstan alongside feeling Afghan security personnel and refugees.
Concern Raised by Russia
On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry noted a sharp increase in tension along the Afghan-Tajik border and warned that, “The Moscow led CSTO alliance was ready to engage its entire military capability to provide assistant to Tajikistan”, if the situation worsened in Afghanistan. In response to the Russian threat, Taliban said it will not attack the border area with Tajikistan.
KEY Background
As U.S. troops prepare to exit Afghanistan, the Taliban has launched a massive offensive across the country in the past 2 months, taking over large swathes of territory. This has forced the Afghan government and its security forces to consolidate their power largely in the capital, Kabul and other major urban areas.
Last week, all U.S. and NATO troops left Bagram air base-one of the biggest military bases in Afghanistan, after nearly two decades of continuous presence. The Key Base was handed over to Afghan security forces later that week and maintaining control of it will likely to be critical for Afghan government to prevent a Taliban takeover of Kabul.
Biden Defended the Move.
On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden forcefully defended his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan, ending the country’s to decade long war in the region, when pressed about the Taliban gains in the reason, Biden retorted: “How many thousands more American daughters and son are you willing to risk? And how long would you have them stay?”
The president also pushed by against the reasons that Americans may be forced to flee from Kabul as they had to from Saigon back in 1975 after ending the Vietnam war. Biden claim that U.S. has done enough to train and empower the advanced security forces to secure the country, but considered that holding of the Taliban will require political and military might.
Taliban welcomes the Move
“The Taliban, for their part, welcomed with one’s any day or however that U.S. and Foreign troops leave earlier is a positive step”, spokesman Sohail Shaheen told.
What Now?
President Ashraf Ghani said, “The government could handle the situation, but admitted difficulties lay ahead. What we are witnessing is one of the most complicated stages of the transition”, he said in a speech in Kabul on Thursday. As as the Afghan military struggle to hold their ground against the point, the country’s leadership also appeared to be envelope in Chaos.
Email leak audio call published on social media, Vice President Amarula Saleh could be heard issuing a death threat to a parliamentarian, after accusing the official of encouraging security forces to surrender to the Taliban in Badghis.
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