Afghanistan crisis: NATO commits to center efforts on evacuations from Kabul
World | August 20, 2021 23:53 ISTNATO headquarters has blamed a failure of Afghan leadership for the swift collapse of the country's Western-backed armed forces.
NATO headquarters has blamed a failure of Afghan leadership for the swift collapse of the country's Western-backed armed forces.
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If the turmoil is restricted within Afghan boundaries, the impact would be limited. But if Afghanistan continues to be on the boil, and boil violently, the oil-producing regions of the Middle East and Central Asia could get affected and, consequently, oil prices.
Hundreds of people had gathered at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 16 to leave the country as the Taliban took control over Kabul once again after 20 years, fearing the return of their hardline rule.
Biden is set to meet with his national security team about the evacuations, and to speak from the White House Friday afternoon. In addition to criticism from some lawmakers who say the U.S. failed to adequately plan for the Taliban's swift takeover, U.S. diplomats have voiced dissent.
AQAP fighters in Yemen's central governorate of Bayda and the southern province of Shabwa celebrated the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan with fireworks and by firing gunshots in the air.
The Taliban have sought to project moderation and have pledged to restore security and forgive those who fought them in the 20 years since a U.S.-led invasion.
Asaduddin Owaisi added that Pakistan has gained the most from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
India is among other countries that are evacuating their staff and people from Afghanistan after the Taliban seized power in the country.
Several people were reported to be killed in the Afghan city of Asadabad on Thursday when Taliban fighters opened fire on people waving the national flat at an Independence Day rally, news agency Reuters sai
"I'm ready to speak myself when it is clear with whom should I speak, for what purpose," he said on Thursday at a briefing for reporters.
Wardak, a high-profile Afghan national police officer, was being hunted by the Taliban because of his years working with the American military.
Young football player Zaki Anwari had climbed onto the USAF Boeing C-17 plane that took off from the Kabul International airport.
Afghanistan Latest News: Although the Taliban promised safe passage to the Kabul airport for people trying to flee the country, there have been incidents of violence at the checkpoints on airport roads. Photographs of women and children being beaten and whipped by the Taliban fighters have surfaced showing the brutal face of the insurgents. Reports of civilians - women and children - being beaten, houses being ransacked have been pouring in since August 15 - the day the Taliban seized control of capital Kabul.
Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. Soon after the terror group claimed control over the Afghan capital, several countries started evacuating their diplomatic personnel and people from the country.
S Jaishankar said that India is “very carefully” following the developments in Afghanistan and India’s focus is on ensuring the security and safe return of Indian nationals still in the war-torn country.
Addressing the world via a Facebook video, Ashraf Ghani defended his action of leaving the country saying he did it in a bid to prevent massive bloodshed.
Ambassador Mohammad Zahir Aghbar told a news conference on Wednesday that Ashraf Ghani, former President of Afghanistan “stole $169 million from the state coffers” and called his flight “a betrayal of the state and the nation.”
As Afghanistan stares at an uncertain future, world leaders, political commentators and foreign affairs experts have joined the international chorus denouncing the US policy in Afghanistan, under which a 20-year military deployment suddenly came to a chaotic end on Sunday.
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