For the previous two weeks, US navy has been securing Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport
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For the primary time since 2001 there aren’t any American troops in Afghanistan after america accomplished the evacuation of most of its residents and hundreds of at-risk Afghans.
Greater than 114,000 individuals have been airlifted from Kabul airport up to now two weeks as a part of the U.S. effort.
However the finish of the U.S. navy involvement in Afghanistan raises a brand new set of questions for Biden and his administration.
WHAT HAPPENS TO AMERICANS AND AT-RISK AFGHANS LEFT BEHIND?
America has evacuated greater than 5,500 U.S. residents since evacuation flights started on Aug. 14. A small variety of Americans have chosen to proceed to remain in Afghanistan, a lot of them to allow them to be with members of the family.
The Biden administration has mentioned it expects the Taliban to proceed permitting protected passage for People and others to go away Afghanistan after the U.S. navy withdrawal is accomplished.
However there are considerations about how these residents will be capable of depart if there isn’t any functioning airport.
Tens of hundreds of at-risk Afghans, akin to interpreters who labored with the U.S. navy, journalists and ladies’s rights advocates, have additionally been left behind.
It’s unclear what their destiny shall be however officers are involved that the Taliban could retaliate towards them.
The Taliban have pledged to permit all overseas nationals and Afghan residents with journey authorization from one other nation to go away Afghanistan, in line with a joint assertion issued by Britain, america and different nations on Sunday.
WHAT HAPPENS TO KABUL AIRPORT AFTER US FORCES LEAVE?
For the previous two weeks, the U.S. navy has been securing and working Kabul’s Hamid Karzai Worldwide Airport with almost 6,000 troops.
The Taliban are in talks with governments like Qatar and Turkey to hunt help to proceed civilian flight operations from there, the one means for many individuals to go away Afghanistan.
Turkish International Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu mentioned on Sunday that repairs have to be made at Kabul airport earlier than it may be reopened to civilian flights.
Turkey, which is a part of the NATO mission, has been chargeable for safety on the airport for the previous six years. Retaining the airport open after overseas forces hand over management is significant not only for Afghanistan to remain linked to the world but in addition to keep up help provides and operations.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE US-TALIBAN RELATIONSHIP LOOK LIKE?
America has mentioned it doesn’t plan to go away diplomats behind in Afghanistan and can determine on what to do sooner or later based mostly on the Taliban’s actions.
However the Biden administration must decide the way it is ready to guarantee a humanitarian and financial disaster doesn’t escape within the nation.
The United Nations says greater than 18 million individuals – over half Afghanistan’s inhabitants – require help and half of all Afghan kids beneath 5 already endure from acute malnutrition amid the second drought in 4 years.
Some nations together with Britain have mentioned that no nation ought to bilaterally acknowledge the Taliban as the federal government of Afghanistan.
WHAT KIND OF THREAT IS POSED BY ISIS?
The one space of cooperation between america and Taliban might be on the risk posed by ISIS terrorists.
There are questions on how Washington and the Taliban can coordinate and probably even share info to counter the group.
ISIS-Okay, named after a historic time period for the area, first appeared in japanese Afghanistan in late 2014 and shortly established a fame for excessive brutality.
The group claimed accountability for an Aug. 26 suicide bombing outdoors the airport that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of Afghan civilians.
America has carried out no less than two drone strikes towards the group since then and Biden has mentioned his administration will proceed to retaliate for the assault.
ISIS-Okay is a sworn enemy of the Taliban. However U.S. intelligence officers imagine the motion used the instability that led to the collapse of Afghanistan’s Western-backed authorities this month to strengthen its place and step up recruitment of disenfranchised Taliban members.
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