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US Prez Joe Biden says pull-out is on despite Taliban’s march

 



Biden in April ordered the withdrawal of all the US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 to end America’s longest war. The Pentagon’s task of removing service members and equipment out of the country is nearly complete and the US military mission is slated to end by August 31.

US President Joe Biden has ruled out any change in the American plan to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan despite the Taliban group increasingly gaining control over large parts of the war-torn country, saying Afghan leaders need to fight for themselves and their nation.

Biden in April ordered the withdrawal of all the US troops from Afghanistan by September 11 to end America’s longest war. The Pentagon’s task of removing service members and equipment out of the country is nearly complete and the US military mission is slated to end by August 31.

“No,” Biden told reporters on Tuesday at the White House when asked if his plan to withdraw troops could change at all, given Taliban’s lightning offensive in the north.

“Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years. We trained and equipped over 300,000 Afghan forces. Afghan leaders have to come together. We lost thousands - lost to death and injury - thousands of American personnel. They’ve got to fight for themselves, fight for their nation,” he said.

“I’ll insist we continue to keep the commitments we made of providing close air support, making sure that their air force functions and is operable, resupplying their forces with food and equipment, and paying all their salaries. But they’ve got to want to fight,” Biden said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the Taliban captured the city of Faizabad in northern Afghanistan, a local MP told AFP, making it the ninth provincial capital to fall to the rampaging insurgents in less than a week.

Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani flew to the besieged northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Wednesday to rally the beleaguered government forces. But while Ghani is focusing on motivating his troops in Mazar-i-Sharif, US intelligence said the Taliban could isolate the capital city of Kabul in 30 days and potentially take it over in 90 days.

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