Comments (5)War in Afghanistan 2021
In April 2021, United State’s President Joe Biden announced that U.S. military forces would renounce Afghanistan by September 2021. The Taliban, which had continued to imprison and challenge territory across the country in spite of ongoing calm talks with the Afghan government, ramped up attacks on ANDSF bases and settlements and began to rapidly seize more region. In May 2021, the U.S. military accelerated the rapidity of its crowd withdrawal. By the end of July 2021, the United States had completed nearly 95 percent of its extraction, departure just 650 troops to protect the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
During 2021 summers, the Taliban sustained its offensive, intimidating government-controlled urban areas and seizing more than a few border crossings. In early August, the Taliban started direct beating on frequent urban areas, as well as Kandahar in the south and Herat in the west.
On August 6, 2021, the Taliban imprisoned the capital of southern Nimruz region, the first regional capital to go down. After that, regional capitals began to fall in quick succession. Within days, the Taliban imprisoned more than ten other capitals, including Mazar-i-Sharif in the north and Jalalabad in the east, leaving Kabul the only main urban area beneath government control. On August 15, 2021, Taliban armed forces entered the capital, most important Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to run away the country and the Afghan government to fall down.
Afterward that day, the Taliban declared they had gone into the presidential fortress, taken command of the city, and were set up checkpoints to uphold safety.
The speed of the Taliban’s defensive growth and fall down of both the ANDSF and Afghan government surprised U.S. officials and allies—as well as, allegedly, the Taliban itself—in spite of earlier intelligence appraisals of the circumstances on the ground. The Biden management certified the operation of an additional six thousand crowd to assist with the mass departure of U.S. and allied workers, as well as thousands of Afghans who worked with the United States and were trying to run away. The speed of the Afghan government’s fall down threatens a mass mass departure of refugees from Afghanistan and has make worse an already dire humanitarian crisis.
This war was a conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021. After the Taliban government declined to hand over terrorist leader Osama bin Laden in the awaken of al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001, assaults, the United States enter by force Afghanistan. The Taliban leadership quickly lost power of the country and relocated to southern Afghanistan and across the border to Pakistan. From there, they waged a rebellion adjacent to the Western-backed government in Kabul, ANSF, and international alliance crowd.
