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The Afghan government in Kabul will be fighting for its life and could well fall to the Taliban after the United States completes its military withdrawal from the country in August, according to a U.S. government watchdog charged with monitoring events on the ground.
Despite a series of cautiously optimistic assessments by high-ranking U.S. military officials and Afghan leaders, a new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) describes the situation as “bleak” and echoes concerns that Afghan security forces are not ready to mount any meaningful resistance.
“The overall trend is clearly unfavorable to the Afghan government, which could face an existential crisis if it isn’t addressed and reversed,” Special Inspector General John Sopko wrote in the report, released Wednesday.
Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 3:15 pm
It is a country other powers simply cannot leave alone.
Even after abandoning its Kabul post in ignominy, tail
tucked between their legs, Australia is now wondering if it
should return – in some form. The Department of Trade and
Foreign Affairs has been sending out a few signals, none of
them definitive. “We will not comment on intelligence
matters,” a spokesman for foreign minister Senator Marise
Payne stated
tersely earlier this month.
The spokesman was,
however, willing to make general remarks about a belated
return. When, he could not be sure, but Canberra’s
diplomatic arrangements in Afghanistan “were always
Top general says US prepared to continue air strikes against Taliban
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Kabul: The United States has accelerated its air campaign against the Taliban in the closing weeks of its military mission in Afghanistan, and the US forces’ top commander says they are prepared to continue if the militants continue their attack.
US forces bombarded Taliban positions in at least four air strikes last week, including in the southern province of Kandahar. Militants have besieged and now control some parts of the provincial capital, along with about half of the country’s district centres, defence officials have said.
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