U.S. starts Afghanistan withdrawal, turning over bases

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U.S. begins Afghanistan withdrawal, handing over bases

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The leader of foreign forces in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, has stated an organized withdrawal of foreign forces and the turning over of military bases and devices to the Afghan forces had actually started.

Miller stated on Sunday that he was acting upon orders based upon U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice to end America’s longest war, considering the extended and intractable fight in Afghanistan no longer lined up with American top priorities.

Earlier this month Biden stated he would withdraw soldiers from Afghanistan prior to Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the militant attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon that released the Afghan war.

Miller, who has actually been commanding the U.S. forces and the NATO Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan in their battle versus the Taliban and other Islamist militant groups considering that 2018, stated foreign forces will continue to have “the military means and capability to fully protect themselves during the ongoing retrograde and will support the Afghan security forces.”

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“I’ve had the opportunity to talk to Taliban members with the Taliban Political Commission, and I’ve told them a return to violence, an effort to force a military decision, would be a tragedy for Afghanistan and the Afghan people,” Miller informed press reporters in the capital Kabul.

The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, when they were ousted by U.S.-led forces. Since then they have actually waged a long-running revolt and now manage broad swathes of area.

Security specialists in current weeks stated they question if the Taliban will enable U.S. forces, whom they call intruders, to in harmony leave the nation at a time when clashes in between the Afghan forces and the Taliban have actually not receded.

Foreign force withdrawal is slated to start on May 1, in line with an arrangement with the Taliban in 2020.

“As we retrograde to zero U.S. forces, we will turn over the (military) bases primarily to the (Afghan) Ministry of Defense and other Afghan forces,” Miller stated, including that the Taliban have actually devoted to break their relationship with Al Qaeda, the Islamist extremist group.

The Taliban federal government’s safeguarding of Al Qaeda was the crucial factor for the U.S. intrusion of Afghanistan after the September 2001 attacks.

A United Nations report in January stated there were as numerous as 500 Al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan which the Taliban kept a close relationship with them. The Taliban rejects Al Qaeda existence in Afghanistan.