United States kicks off final phase of withdrawal from Afghanistan – News

Foreign troops will finish leaving the Asian country on September 11, so the local government will have to fight the insurgents on its own.

The process of withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan, which numbered around 2,500 troops, was already underway, but May Day is a symbolic date, as it was agreed between the Taliban leaders and the government of the former president. Donald Trump, in the agreement signed in Doha, Qatar, in February 2020.

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A large movement of helicopters from the United States covered the skies of the Afghan capital, Kabul, and the nearby base of Bagran for a few days.

It is the media responsible for carrying out the gigantic troop withdrawal, which would culminate on September 11, just on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

In parallel, the allies of the United States within NATO began last Thursday to withdraw the troops which had been assigned to the mission “Resolute Support” (determined support), operation which had been agreed with the Pentagon.

In mid-April, upon confirmation of the troop withdrawal, United States President Joe Biden warned that the goal of preventing Afghanistan from being used as a terrorist base could be achieved.

“The time has come to end America’s longest war,” the Democratic president said on occasion.

US troops intervened in Afghanistan following the 2001 attacks on the New York Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

The Americans expelled the Taliban from the Afghan government, accused of harboring and supporting elements of Al Qaeda that carried out the attacks.

Since the signing of the Doha agreement, the Taliban have refrained from directly attacking foreign forces, although government troops have done so, harassing them in rural areas while continuing to terrorize the population of major cities with targeted assassinations.

According to the DW website, the withdrawal of the Americans has only increased the fear of the Afghans, who fear that the Taliban will return to power and impose the fundamentalist regime they set up when they ruled between 1996 and 2001.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani believes government troops are “fully capable” of resisting insurgents.

However, US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley has acknowledged that utter chaos cannot be ruled out.

“At worst, we will have the collapse of the Afghan government, the collapse of the Afghan army, a civil war, the accompanying humanitarian catastrophe and the potential return of Al Qaeda,” he said. .