The Biden administration is facing increasingly urgent calls to evacuate Afghans who helped the United States during the 20-year war and are at risk of being hunted down and killed by the Taliban after U.S. troops depart.The top general in the United States confirmed this week that the military is drafting plans for an evacuation should President Biden order one.But advocates and lawmakers, including some who support Biden's withdrawal, are.
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An unleashed Taliban and its Islamic allies could spell trouble
May 27
By: Salman Rafi Sheikh
Although the US withdrawal from Afghanistan can’t be anything but good news for China, the withdrawal comes with caveats that put Beijing in a real quandary, one that it is struggling to manage through a host of initiatives targeting both Kabul and the Taliban.
China, one of the few countries in the region able to develop close relations with both Kabul and the Taliban, remains focused on helping to establish a post-war Afghanistan that doesn’t become a melting stew of regional and international jihadi networks targeting China’s Muslim-rich Xinjiang region, jeopardizing its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban and elements of Al Qaeda after the terror attacks of September 11.
Now the Biden administration has set September 11 this year as the deadline to pull out all remaining US troops from the country.
Mr McConnell voiced concern over the US military s future ability to conduct counter-terrorism “reconnaissance and strike missions” without a presence in Afghanistan.
“If the Taliban takes Kabul, will the Biden administration recognise it as the legitimate government of Afghanistan? he asked. Will we shutter our embassy and our aid programmes?
“The reality is, they don’t know. They can’t say. There is no plan.
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