The Taliban completed their sweep on the southern parts of Afghanistan on Friday by taking over four more provincial capitals. This now puts the Taliban in control in about two-thirds of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals and of the country.
As everything there seems to be rapidly deteriorating, so does the security of those working in the embassies. The United States planned to send 3,000 troops to evacuate personnel from the Embassy in Kabul. The United Kingdom and Canada have followed suit. Denmark will remain temporarily closed and Germany will reduce their staff to the bare minimum.
Even many people residing in Afghanistan have been fleeing their homes, due to the fear they remember living in over two decades ago, when the Taliban was last in power. During their rule, public executions were made in order to follow certain parts of the Islamic law, as well as eliminate women’s rights.
“We are worried. There is fighting everywhere in Afghanistan. The provinces are falling day by day,” states a resident of Kabul, Ahmad Sakhi. “The government should do something. The people are facing lots of problems.”
Now that the U.S and Biden are just a few weeks away from withdrawing their troops, many of the insurgents and members of the Taliban are advancing and riding on American-made Humvees and are carrying M-16s from Afghan forces.
This shows that Biden’s announcement to remove troops in order to end a two-decade war is not going to undo all of the hard work that has been put into the Middle East for the past 20 years, since Sept. 11th, 2001.
Now cities, such as Western-backed Kabul, which has yet to be seized, is now at high risk, with officials predicting that an attack by the Taliban to overrun the city could occur within the next month.
