Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban

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It was reported on June 16, 2022, that these guards were targeted by the Taliban for beatings alongside Afghans who worked under the British Embassy. So, we were ready when the Afghan Security Forces — after two decades of fighting for their country and losing thousands of their own — did not hold on as long as anyone expected. Nezam was part of the Afghan National Army’s first group of American-trained commandos; he passed through Fort Bragg’s legendary Q course and served alongside the US Special Forces for over a decade. Surrounded by the Taliban, for six days, H and his men manned their defensive positions day and night. The conflict between the Taliban and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF), formerly known as the Northern Alliance, ostensibly had concluded on September 6, when Taliban fighters took the Panjshir Valley, the final holdout of resistance.

Video shows thousands of prisoners, reportedly including Islamic State and al Qaeda fighters, freed from Kabul jail by the Taliban". On 19 August, demonstrations spread to various parts of Kabul, including one large protest near Kabul Airport where cars and people waved the flag of the republic, and another with over 200 people [209] gathered near the presidential palace in Kabul before it was violently dispersed by the Taliban. And second, we must stay clearly focused on the fundamental national security interest of the United States of America.In the days after the fall, some residents reported that the Taliban had re-imposed a ban on women leaving their homes without a male guardian present.

Read more about the condition Very Good: A book that has been read and does not look new, but is in excellent condition. The assumption was that more than 300,000 Afghan National Security Forces that we had trained over the past two decades and equipped would be a strong adversary in their civil wars with the Taliban. Durant's experience as a prisoner in Somalia grew increasingly bizarre, crystallizing a clash of cultures by turns frightening, melancholy, hilarious, and strangely familiar. Reporters argued that Biden's comments did not age well, as embassy staff burned documents and "helicopters were pictured hovering above the compound, shuttling diplomats to the airport" less than a month later. The immense collective action taken to airlift civilians at risk under the rule of the Taliban was not an easy feat and far from finished.The Afghan embassy in Tajikistan replaced their presidential portrait of Ghani with one of Saleh and submitted a request to Interpol to have arrest warrants issued for Ghani, along with his chief advisor Fazel Mahmood and National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib, on charges of having stolen from the Afghan treasury. Zamir Kubalov, the Russian envoy for Afghanistan also remarked that the "regime created by the Americans tumbled down even before they left" in comparison to the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Khalida Popal, former captain of the Afghanistan women's national football team, advised the women's national team players to burn their uniforms to avoid reprisals. In the evening, the National Museum of Afghanistan posted a statement on Facebook stating "huge concern about safety of Museum's Artifacts and goods for Museum Employees". Besides not being represented by their government, the Taliban has also altered the access to education for females.