this Taliban cheer U.S. withdrawal After Afghanistan as “Lessons of Other Invaders” The last U.S. military aircraft left the country, Effectively ended the twenty-year war.
this Taliban According to Agence France-Presse, a celebration was held at Kabul Airport on Tuesday, with congratulatory messages and gunfire in the air. Weekly newspaper Previously broke the news that a C17 strategic transport aircraft of the U.S. Air Forcet Leaving Afghanistan at 11:59 PM local time on Monday, approaching the President Joe BidenUntil August 31 American armies Presence in the country.
“Congratulations to Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told reporters on the runway. “This victory belongs to all of us.”
Mujahid said that although the Taliban’s takeover was a “lesson for other invaders,” he also expressed his desire to improve relations with the United States and the international community.
According to Agence France-Presse, he said: “We hope to maintain good relations with the United States and the world.” “We welcome the establishment of good diplomatic relations with them.”
The Taliban insisted that it has moved towards a more moderate platform, but there are reports that combatants are looking for Afghans who cooperate with the U.S. military and professional women who are required to stay at home. Organize fears that the barbaric rule of the 1990s may come back.
Soon after the Taliban occupied Kabul on August 15, the capital’s airport experienced a tragic and chaotic scene as Afghans desperately flee the country and many clung to the plane that was about to take off.
Thursday, one Suicide bombing outside the airport More than 170 Afghans and 13 American soldiers were killed. ISIS-K, the regional branch of the Islamic State, claimed to have launched the attack.
In the U.S. evacuation effort on Monday, Several rockets were launched at Kabul AirportThere were no casualties and it is unclear who was responsible for the attack.
After the withdrawal, the United States left crippled military aircraft, armored vehicles and defense equipment at Kabul Airport.
At the Monday press conference Pentagon, General Kenneth MacKenzie of the Central Command said that the military’s C-RAM (anti-rocket, artillery, and mortar) system-used to intercept five rockets launched to the airport on Sunday-has been demilitarized. “Never use it again.”
Mackenzie went on to say that as many as 70 MRAPs have been “demilitarized”, 27 Hummers will “no longer be piloted”, and 73 military aircraft “will no longer fly.”
“They will not be operated by anyone,” McKenzie said of the aircraft. “Most of them were unable to perform the mission at first, but they will definitely never be able to fly again.”
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