US chief general says security in Afghanistan is deteriorating Abdullah Abdullah News

For now, the U.S. has the weapons and capacity to help a Taliban offensive test Afghan forces, the U.S. general says.

The U.S. chief of staff in Afghanistan on Tuesday made a serious assessment of the country’s poor security situation, while the US downs the so-called “perpetual war”.

General Austin Miller said the Taliban’s rapid loss of districts across the country – many of which are of great strategic value – is worrying. He also warned that militias deployed to support the persecuted national security forces could lead the country to civil war.

Miller told a small group of journalists in the Afghan capital that he currently has the ability to support weapons and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.

Only a political solution will bring peace to the nation tortured in the war, he said.

“It is a political solution that brings peace to Afghanistan. And it’s not just the last 20 years. It’s really been the last 42 years, ”he said.

Miller was not only talking about the U.S. war, but also about the 10-year occupation of Russia that ended in 1989. The same Afghan leaders who deployed militias against the Taliban after the conflict led to a brutal civil war. The civil war created the Taliban, and in 1996 it took power.

U.S. officials say the withdrawal of U.S. troops is likely to be fully completed by July 4 with a force that will remain to protect the U.S. embassy and international airport in Kabul.

Miller declined to give any date or time, referring only to the September timeline given by U.S. President Joe Biden in April, when he announced the final withdrawal of the remaining 3,500 U.S. troops.

Biden He met with Afghan leaders Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah at the White House last week to continue to show the US commitment to Afghanistan.

“Cooperation between Afghanistan and the United States is not over,” Biden said at a meeting at the Ohan Office with Ghani and Abdullah.

The Taliban have had large-scale districts in succession, many of them in the north of the country, dominated by minorities in Afghanistan. The North is a stronghold of many former mujahideen leaders who have been the main force in Afghanistan since the Taliban came to power in 2001, along with the US-led coalition.

Several neighborhoods have been on key roads because one is on the border With northern Tajikistan. The Taliban have made statements saying that hundreds of Afghan security forces have surrendered, most of them going to their homes after receiving Taliban transportation money.

The Kabul government has been launched “national mobilization” in response, armed local volunteers and revived militia groups to take on the Taliban.

Miller said there are many reasons for the falls to fall, including troop fatigue and psychological failure and military loss. But he said the escalation of violence risks the country falling into a deadly civil war.

“‘How does all this end?’ When we start talking about the issue, the way it should end for the people of Afghanistan is something that revolves around a political solution, ”Miller said.

“I also said that if you do not reduce violence, that political solution will become increasingly difficult.”

Miller declined to say where the U.S. and NATO allies were in the withdrawal process.

He said the head of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan was ending his term without giving a date.

Miller would not speculate on the legacy of the longest-running U.S. war, saying history will decide.