U.S. military objective in Afghanistan will end by August 31, Biden states

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U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will end by August 31, Biden says

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United States President Joe Biden discusses the scenario in Afghanistan from the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, July 8, 2021.

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WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden stated the U.S. military objective in Afghanistan will end by August 31, and he contacted the nation’s leaders to “come together” to avoid civil war.

“We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build,” Biden stated Thursday in remarks at the White House.

After 20 years of war, he stated, the perfect conditions that the U.S. had actually as soon as wanted to produce prior to it withdrew soldiers had actually never ever emerged.

“How many more, how many more thousands of America’s daughters and sons are you willing to risk?” stated Biden, who initially revealed the prepared departure of U.S. forces in April. “How long would you have them stay?”

“It’s up to the Afghans to make decisions about the future of their country,” stated the president.

In April, the White House verified that U.S. soldiers had actually started the herculean withdrawal procedure from Afghanistan. On Tuesday, the Pentagon stated it had actually finished more than 90% of the effort.

The upgrade from U.S. Central Command, which supervises America’s military footprint covering from Northeast Africa to South Asia, happened 2 months ahead of the due date Biden had actually set previously this year. 

The elimination of roughly 3,000 U.S. service members accompanies the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which stimulated America’s entry into prolonged wars in the Middle East and Central Asia.

Aircrew designated to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, bring their equipment into a C-17 Globemaster III designated to Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, April 27, 2021.

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Biden informed press reporters he is positive the Afghan armed force can hold the nation from the advancing Taliban, pointing out the 300,000 Afghan soldiers the U.S. has actually trained and geared up in the previous twenty years.

“They clearly have the capacity to keep the government in place, the question is will they come together, and will they do it,” he stated, describing Afghan leaders.

At the Pentagon, representative John Kirby stated the U.S. was carefully keeping track of the unfolding security scenario in Afghanistan. He stated the Taliban had actually taken lots of district centers and threaten provincial centers, too.

“We are mindful of the security situation and we are mindful of the Taliban’s advance and that’s why it is so important for us to press for a negotiated political settlement to this war,” Kirby stated.

The Taliban’s sensational advances

Taliban fighters with an automobile on a highway in Afghanistan.

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Last week, the U.S. military quietly departed Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, a historic milestone following Biden’s order to withdraw U.S. forces from the country.

In 2012, at its peak, Bagram saw more than 100,000 U.S. troops pass through. It was the largest U.S. military installation in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s district administrator for Bagram told The Associated Press that the U.S. departure happened overnight and without coordination with local officials. As a result, dozens of looters stormed through the unprotected gates.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid described the U.S. departure from Bagram “a positive step” and told NBC News that “for now” the Taliban does not plan on seizing the sprawling airbase, which is found some 40 miles north of Kabul.

American forces fell the Taliban in 2001 after the group harbored Osama bin Laden and other al Qaeda leaders who performed the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Two years later on, U.S. soldiers got into Iraq, a relocation focused on eliminating then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Twenty years later on, America’s longest war has actually cost the lives of around 2,300 U.S. soldiers and left thousands more injured. More than 100,000 Afghans are approximated to have actually been eliminated or injured given that the dispute started.

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