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Two months ago, Biden announced that the U.S. was going to pull all of its troops out of Afghanistan. Many people immediately warned that the Taliban would be delighted to hear that, and would use the withdrawal to move back in and take over the country.
50 of Afghanistan's 370 districts have fallen to Taliban since May: UN envoy
By Nic Robertson, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Richard Roth, CNN
Updated 3:50 PM ET, Tue June 22, 2021
(CNN) Fifty of Afghanistan's 370 districts have fallen to Taliban militants since May, according to the UN's special envoy on Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, as the United States continues its military withdrawal from the country.
"The Taliban recent advances are even more significant and are as a result of an intensified military campaign; more than 50 of Afghanistan's 370 districts have fallen since the beginning of May," Lyons told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
"Most districts have been that have been taken surround provincial capitals, suggesting that the Taliban are positioning themselves to try and take these capitals once foreign forces are fully withdrawn," Lyons continued.
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Bush should have dropped 10 nukes on Afghanistan after 9/11 and turned the place into dust! It was a crap hole then and it's a crap hole now. Our American soldiers blood was spilled for that garbage country. No redeeming qualities about that country!
Bush should have dropped 10 nukes on Afghanistan after 9/11 and turned the place into dust! It was a crap hole then and it's a crap hole now. Our American soldiers blood was spilled for that garbage country. No redeeming qualities about that country!
Two months ago, Biden announced that the U.S. was going to pull all of its troops out of Afghanistan. Many people immediately warned that the Taliban would be delighted to hear that, and would use the withdrawal to move back in and take over the country.
They were right.
Keep in mind the May deadline was negotiated by the Trump administration. Trump actually wanted the withdrawal sooner.
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