Fighting it out in afghanistan12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() 18, 2020 - In releasing a report that covered activity in Afghanistan from April 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020, the Defense Department inspector general’s office says, “The Taliban did not appear to uphold its commitment to distance itself from terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. “Even still, the United States began to reduce its forces in Afghanistan from roughly 13,000 to 8,600.”Īug. reduction in forces and that remaining high levels of violence could jeopardize the U.S.-Taliban agreement,” according to the report, which covered activity from Jan. officials stated the Taliban must reduce violence as a necessary condition for continued U.S. cut troop levels in Afghanistan by more than 4,000, even though “the Taliban escalated violence further after signing the agreement.” In releasing its quarterly report on Afghanistan, the DOD inspector general’s office says the U.S. MaUnder pressure from the U.S., Ghani orders the release of 1,500 Taliban prisoners, but at the rate of 100 per day. “he Taliban have signed up to a whole series of conditions … all the Members of the Congress have all the documents associated with this agreement,” Milley says.ĭespite the agreement, the Taliban attack Afghan forces in Helmand province, and the U.S. troops and coalition forces or launch “high-profile attacks,” including in Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals. MaChairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley tells the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Taliban pledged in the classified documents not to attack U.S. “There has been no commitment for the release of 5,000 prisoners.” ![]() “Freeing Taliban prisoners is not the authority of America but the authority of the Afghan government,” Ghani says. MaAfghan President Ashraf Ghani objects to a provision in the agreement that would require his country to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners. ![]() The pact includes the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters who have been held prisoners by the Afghanistan government, which is not a party to the agreement. withdrawals, however, occurred despite the fact that the Defense Department inspector general’s office repeatedly reported that the Taliban worked with al-Qaeda.) troops is contingent on the “Taliban’s action against al-Qaeda and other terrorists who could threaten us,” Trump says in a speech at the Conservative Political Active Conference. had about 13,000 troops in Afghanistan, according to a Department of Defense inspector general report. withdrawal from Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, but do not release two classified annexes that set the conditions for U.S. and Taliban sign an agreement that sets the terms for a U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, cost a trillion dollars, and occupied the attention of four presidential administrations,” as the Afghanistan Study Group put it in a February report. military’s 20-year war in Afghanistan - a war that has “taken the lives of nearly 2,500 U.S. Here we lay out many of the key diplomatic decisions, military actions, presidential pronouncements and expert assessments of the withdrawal agreement that ended the U.S. intelligence assessed that the Afghan government would likely collapse. left, even if it meant it had to “continue our war to achieve our goal.”īiden assured Americans last month that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was “not inevitable,” and denied that U.S. 31, despite obvious signs that the Taliban wasn’t complying with the agreement and had a stated goal to create an “Islamic government” in Afghanistan after the U.S. But ultimately his administration pushed ahead with a plan to withdraw by Aug. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)īiden delayed the May 1 withdrawal date that he inherited. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman for nearly two decades, appears at a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. ![]()
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