The commander of US military operations in Afghanistan warned on Sunday from Kabul that the United States would continue its air strikes in support of Afghan forces if the Taliban continued its offensive launched since early May.
The American General Kenneth said McKenzie, commander of US Central Command (Centcom) “The United States has intensified its airstrikes to support Afghan forces in recent days, and we are ready to continue this high level of support in the coming days if the Taliban continue their attacks.”
Wen Since the beginning of May, the Taliban have launched a sweeping attack on the Afghan forces, during which they managed to occupy vast rural areas, taking advantage of the withdrawal of international forces from Afghanistan, which will be completed at the end of August.
(Afghan forces could not withstand the Taliban and no longer control only the capitals of the provinces and the main hubs.
“I want to be clear, the government of Afghanistan will be severely tested in the coming days, and the movement is trying The Taliban are the inevitability of their campaign. They are wrong (… The victory of the Taliban is not inevitable.”
As the commander of the US Central Command (Centcom) responsible for US military operations in twenty countries in the Middle East and in Central and South Asia, General McKenzie has been leading military operations in Afghanistan since the end of the war. General Austin Scott Miller will be assigned to command US and NATO forces in Afghanistan on July 12.
With the stalled negotiations that began in September in Doha, the withdrawal of international forces and setbacks for Afghan forces, fears are growing that The Taliban regained control of power after they ruled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001.
22,000 Afghan families displaced
and fled More than 22,000 Afghan families fled the battles in Kandahar, the former stronghold of the Taliban, officials announced earlier Sunday,
, while the authorities arrested four suspected insurgents involved in a missile attack targeting Kabul this week.
The head of the Department of Refugee Affairs in Kandahar, Dost Muhammad Diyab, said: “The battles pushed 22,000 families to flee from Kandahar during the past month.” He continued, “They have all been displaced from troubled areas in the city to safer areas.”
On Sunday, the battles continued at the outskirts of Kandahar city. “The neglect of some security forces, especially the police, has allowed the Taliban to get so close, and currently, we are trying to organize our security forces,” Lalay Dastagiri, deputy governor of Kandahar province, told AFP.
