Kabul: Hours after US President Joe Biden ordered his troops to drag out of the war-torn nation, the Taliban on Friday claimed to be accountable for 85 p.c of Afghanistan’s territory.
The Taliban claimed that its fighters had seized the border city of Islam Qala, thereby finishing an arc of territory from the Iranian border to the frontier with China.
A delegation of Taliban officers in Moscow mentioned that they managed round 250 of Afghanistan’s 398 districts.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid too confirmed the identical and mentioned that the Islam Qala border crossing was “below our full management”.
In the meantime, the Afghan authorities officers in Kabul mentioned: “efforts are underway to recapture the location”.
“All Afghan safety forces together with the border models are current within the space, and efforts are underway to recapture the location,” AFP quoted Afghan Inside Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian as saying.
This got here because the US President had earlier mentioned that his nation’s navy mission would finish on August 31.
Biden, nevertheless, admitted it was “extremely unlikely” Kabul would be capable to management the complete nation.
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“The established order isn’t an choice,” he mentioned, including that he would “not ship one other era of People to battle in Afghanistan”.
The US President mentioned the Afghan individuals alone ought to decide their future.