Afghanistan war will spread out beyond borders as Taliban advances: mediator

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Afghanistan war will spread beyond borders as Taliban advances: negotiator

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Taliban’s blitz of Afghan area broadened on Wednesday, with the insurgents asserting control over 9 of the nation’s 34 provincial capitals.

Afghan and U.S. authorities have actually alerted of disastrous violence in the war-torn nation of 39 million as the due date approaches for all U.S. soldiers to withdraw by the end of August.

Nader Nadery, a senior member of the Afghan Peace Negotiation Team, revealed severe issue over the quickly aggravating circumstance while speaking with CNBC on Wednesday.

“If the Taliban advances militarily, the region will be burned. This war will not be contained within the borders of Afghanistan,” Nadery informed CNBC’s Capital Connection.

Asked what he viewed as the most instant threat to the worldwide neighborhood, Nadery, who endured years of chaos in Afghanistan, explained a possible swell in terrorist activity far beyond the nation sustained by a sense of triumph over Western forces.

The worry is of “a debt consolidation of power of all the terrorist groups [under] the umbrella of Taliban and the area that the Taliban is attending to them,” Nadery stated.

“The slogan now of every single terrorist group with the jihadist mind is ‘now that we have defeated the United States and its 42 allies in Afghanistan, we can go after them anywhere’,” Nadery included. “That slogan is a clear danger that will enable groups like the Daesh (ISIS), Al Qaeda and others to rally more people, because they’re on the march, they feel triumphant.”

“Members of the Taliban told us in our face that they have defeated the United States and the NATO allies,” he continued. “And that’s not going to be an easy slogan for them to give up, it will be a danger to any disenchanted young in the region and in a broader global arena, where they will join forces around that slogan, and this is not an easy danger.”

International terrorism spawning from a war-torn state is all too familiar. Al Qaeda grew in the 1990s as the group was supplied a sanctuary by Afghanistan’s Taliban federal government, offering a base to prepare the September 11 attacks, which triggered the preliminary U.S. intrusion of Afghanistan almost 20 years earlier.

The Taliban’s continued push for power throughout Afghanistan is likewise reinforced by the group’s just recently gotten worldwide authenticity, beginning with the U.S.-Taliban peace offer and more just recently its senior members’ check out to China that saw what seemed warming ties with Beijing.

“China, regrettably, have actually provided [the Taliban] a red carpet simply recently, those things require to be ended if we are to see a steady area,” Nadery stated.

‘They’ve got to defend themselves’

At the White House on Tuesday, President Joe Biden informed press reporters that he does not regret his choice to withdraw American soldiers from Afghanistan, regardless of stunning gains by the Taliban.

“Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over twenty years, we trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 Afghan forces,” Biden stated.

“Afghan leaders have to come together,” the president included. “They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation.”

In April, Biden bought the complete withdrawal of around 3,000 U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan by Sept. 11.

The Pentagon’s enormous job of getting rid of servicemembers and devices out of Afghanistan is almost total, with the U.S. military objective slated to end by Aug. 31.

Since the U.S. started its withdrawal from the war-torn nation, the Taliban has actually made spectacular battleground advances regardless of being greatly surpassed by the Afghan military.

On Wednesday, the Taliban took 3 provincial Afghan capitals in addition to a regional army head office in Kunduz, according to the Associated Press. Wednesday’s gains provide the Taliban around two-thirds control of the country.

What’s more, the Taliban promptly took 5 provincial Afghan capitals over the weekend, taking 3 in one day alone.

An Afghan unique force member participates in a military operation versus the Taliban fighters in Kandak Anayat town of Kunduz city, Afghanistan, July 23, 2021.

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At the Pentagon, spokesperson John Kirby informed press reporters on Monday that while the Biden administration prepares to continue to supply air assistance, there was very little else the U.S. armed force might do.

“We will certainly support from the air, where and when feasible, but that’s no substitute for leadership on the ground, it’s no substitute for political leadership in Kabul, it’s no substitute for using the capabilities and capacity that we know they have,” Kirby stated.

Kirby included that while the Pentagon is worried to see such advances by the Taliban, the Afghan military need to now utilize the years of training from U.S. and NATO union forces.

“They have an Air Force, the Taliban doesn’t. They have modern weaponry and organizational skills, the Taliban doesn’t. They have superior numbers to the Taliban,” Kirby stated. “They have the advantages, and it’s really now their time to use those advantages.”

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby speaks at interview at the Pentagon January 28, 2021 in Arlington,Virginia.

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As the security circumstance in Afghanistan intensifies, the State Department is taking a look at methods which to scale down the U.S. Embassy in Kabul. There are around 600 U.S. soldiers securing the embassy premises.

“Obviously it is a challenging security environment and were we able, were we confident and were we comfortable having a larger staffing presence there we would,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price informed press reporters Tuesday when inquired about the decrease in personnel in Kabul.

“We are examining the hazard environment every day. The Embassy remains in routine contact with Washington with the most senior individuals in this structure, who in turn remain in routine contact with our coworkers at the [National Security Council] in the White House,” Price included.

Amanda Macias added to this report from Washington.