Taliban fighters sweep into the capital of another Afghan province, heightening fears the hard-line Islamist group was tightening its grip on the country as U.S. forces withdraw.
Recently, the groupmore than half of Afghanistan's territory, including strategic border crossings.
The U.S. Air Force continues to aid the Afghan air force’s bombing of Taliban targets in southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces as Afghan security forces try to prevent a Taliban takeover. On Saturday, the U.S. and British embassies in Kabul repeated a warning to citizens still there to leave “immediately” as the security situation deteriorated."The continued Taliban offensive does nothing but lead to more bloodshed," a State Department spokesperson said Friday."If the Taliban continue down this path, they will be an international pariah without support from the international community or even the people they say they want to govern.
The U.S. toppled the Taliban regime in 2001 after the group sheltered Osama bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda and the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks that triggered America’s longest war.last month that the U.S. military mission in the country will conclude Aug. 31, earlier than initially announced.
The conflict has cost the lives of around 2,300 U.S. troops. From 2001 to 2018, some 58,000 Afghan military and police were killed in the violence,Almost 20 years and billions of dollars in civilian and military aid later, the official in the newly-captured Nimroz province questioned whether her country — one of the world's poorest and most violence-ridden — is better off.
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