The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan is urging the Security Council to demand that the Taliban immediately stop attacking cities in their latest offensive as American and NATO troops pull out of the country.
Internally displaced Afghans who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, are seen at a camp in Daman district of Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.
“This is not a civil war, but a war of criminalized and terrorist networks, fought on the back of Afghans," said Ambassador Ghulam Isaczai. On Friday, the Taliban appeared to have taken their first provincial capital — the city of Zaranj in southern Nimroz province, though the Afghan government claimed there was still fierce fighting underway and that the city had not fallen.
But the link between the Taliban and these foreign militant groups, the ambassador claimed, is “stronger today than at any point in recent times” — with “unprecedented" links to drugs, smuggling and robbing of Afghanistan’s natural resources. Lyons urged participants in meetings next week in Doha, where the Taliban maintain a political office, to convey to the insurgents that “a government imposed by force will not be recognized.”
Whether the council decides to take further action in response to Lyons and Isaczai's appeals remains to be seen.
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