Because of the violent protests in Kazakhstan, the first soldiers of a peacekeeping force led by Russia have arrived in the country. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced.
The Kazakh head of state Kassym-Shomart Tokayev had previously discussed a "terrorist threat" and requested military aid from the Russian-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
In the Kazakh metropolis of Almaty, the protests continue for the third day in a row.
Police and protesters clashed again, according to several news outlets. Shots could be heard. The police told the Interfax news agency that several troublemakers had been "eliminated".
Dawn newspaper reported that according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (sygar) is a government agency that reports directly to Congress, said the latest data released this week.
The figures draw attention to the fact that the United States had reconsidered its Afghan strategy on rising spending.
The report points out that the United States spent 2.2 trillion on the Brown University war plan for the 20-year war from 2001 to 2021.
Von der Leyen also made it clear that the EU must learn lessons from the takeover of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan . The community of 27 states was not involved in the military operation in support of the previous government in the country. But she has invested a lot of money in projects that should prevent the Taliban from regaining power.
The EU had already promised aid of 200 million euros for Afghanistan for the current year. Other countries had also increased their funds. According to the United Nations, a total of more than one billion euros was raised at an international donor conference in Geneva on Monday . With a commitment of 100 million euros, Germany is one of the largest donors.
The then President George W. Bush had proclaimed the "Global War on Terror" a few days after the attacks on September 11, 2001. The Al-Qaeda terrorist network was immediately suspected. "Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it doesn't end there," Bush told Congress. "It will not end until every terrorist group with global reach is found, stopped and defeated."
In the history of modern terrorism, nation states had previously avoided countering the violence of non-state actors with the rhetoric and means of war. Assassinations, whether by anarchists, secessionists, religious fanatics or members of a liberation movement, were considered criminal acts that were tried in court - even if they often had nothing to do with the rule of law. The central question, writes political scientist Herfried Münkler, was "whether the perpetrators should be given political motivation".
But in the mid-1980s the line between the crime and war paradigms began to blur. In 1985, US President Ronald Reagan described terrorist attacks as "acts of war". This was preceded by the detonation of a car bomb by the Shiite Hezbollah in Beirut, which killed 241 US soldiers, as well as several assassinations against American targets for which Washington blamed the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi.
The Taliban are responding to a series of protests and sometimes violent clashes in various cities in the country. Many women also took part in the demonstrations. The Taliban said people disrupted public order and harassed others.
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As the Taliban announced, protests may in future only take place under certain conditions. Organizers must therefore obtain prior approval from the Ministry of Justice . At least 24 hours in advance, demonstrators would have to inform the Justice Department of the reason for the demonstration, the location, the time and the planned protest slogans.
Achund was a close companion of Mullah Omar, one of the founders of the Taliban and head of state during the first Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001. Even then, he held important positions. He is considered to be moderate.
His deputy is said to be Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar. He was previously head of the Islamists' political office and signed the agreement with the United States on behalf of the Taliban last year. The negotiations in Doha at the time led to the end of the US-led military operation in Afghanistan.
The founder of the Hakkani network becomes Minister of the Interior
The post of incumbent interior minister was given to Sarajuddin Hakkani, founder of the network of the same name. The US classifies the Hakkani network as a terrorist group.
The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, was in Kabul for talks with the Taliban leadership. Among other things, he met the Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
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Griffiths then stated that the international community felt an obligation to provide "impartial and independent humanitarian aid" in Afghanistan. He called on the Taliban to respect in particular the rights of women in general and aid workers in particular.
The supplies that the World Food Program has in the country will be used up by the end of September
said the UN Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan, Ramiz Alakbarov. He stressed that humanitarian aid does not have the necessary financial resources from the member states - at least 200 million US dollars are urgently needed.
The United Nations estimates that more than 18 million people in Afghanistan need help - more than half of the total population. At the moment, however, only around nine million people could be reached. Half of all Afghan children under five show signs of malnutrition. In addition to the unclear political situation, there was a second drought in Afghanistan within four years.
Alakbarov reported that even after the militant Islamist Taliban came to power, aid deliveries to Afghanistan were still possible.
We were able to deliver 600 tons of food by truck across border crossings from PakistanDeliveries by air to Mazar-i-Sharif are also possible.
American intellectuals wonder why the United States cannot win wars in modern times.
The question is also whether the withdrawal of US troops will end US involvement in Afghanistan, especially at a time when China and Russia have increasingly established ties with the Taliban.
In defense of the United States, some argue that the United States has had many successes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Tom Cassidy, a professor at the University of Chicago, says: "The US military has found Osama bin Laden and killed him, destroyed al Qaeda, and many of its leaders have been killed or captured.
"Infrastructure has been developed in Afghanistan, schools have been opened for women's education. An educated middle class emerged. Dangerous terrorists such as the so-called Islamic State militant group were destroyed in Iraq, and dictators such as Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi were overthrown in Libya & Iraq. What are these achievements less?'
Five major American wars since 1945
But there is a consensus in the United States that the United States has failed to root out terrorists in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. The Taliban's victory in the war and return to power is the greatest proof of America's failure.
With the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken power everywhere in the country. On August 15, the Taliban advanced into the capital, Kabul. The Afghan government has admitted defeat and President Ashraf Ghani has left the country. In February 2020, the USA and representatives of the Taliban signed a peace agreement for Afghanistan . In it they had promised the gradual withdrawal of the troops. In May, after 20 years in the Hindu Kush, the United States and its NATO allies began withdrawing their soldiers, which should be completed in September.
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After the attack at the airport: US airstrike on Afghan IS offshoots In
In response to the deadly terrorist attack in Kabul, the USA attacked a local IS terrorist group in an air strike. The unmanned air strike in the Afghan province of Nangahar was aimed at "a planner" from Isis-K , said the spokesman for the US Centcom Central Command, Bill Urban. "According to the first signs, we killed the target. We do not know of any civilian casualties." Isis-K is a local branch of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). The Americans speak of Isis instead of IS - that's why they refer to the branch as Isis-K. The terrorist militia killed dozens of Afghans and 13 US soldiers in an attack at Kabul airport on Thursday.
The Taliban want recognition - and they will get it in a certain way, as much as one can hear everywhere these days: Don't! Because yes, normalization of these murderous extremists is out of the question. This self-evident fact, however, does not change the reality that was created with the almost unconditional withdrawal: The Taliban have won the war and are in power, as far as that is possible in Afghanistan. And sooner or later the painful realization will prevail that any influence on the situation in the country must now lead through them. Even: that their rule can be the least evil for the time being. That sounds terrible, and it is - it doesn't get wrong.
Before he was appointed supreme Taliban leader, Achundsada was an Islamist preacher without a high profile, a religious scholar and Sharia judge from the Afghan province of Kandahar. After his predecessor Mullah Mansur was killed in a US attack in 2016, Achundzada, as the "leader of the faithful", makes the final decisions on political, religious and military affairs of the Taliban. The hardliner is probably around 60 years old and belongs to the founding generation of the movement. He should have good contacts with Iran and Russia. His appointment was seen as a sign that he should serve primarily as an ideological leader and less as a military commander of the Taliban. He was given the task of reuniting the fragmented militia. After Mansur's death, there was initially a power struggle at the Taliban's management level. The support of Achundzada by the head of the Al-Qaeda terror network is seen as central to securing his power. Its leader, Aiman al-Zawahiri, declared Achundzada in 2016 an "emir of the believers".
"If the United States or the United Kingdom ask for more time to continue with the evacuations, the answer is no. Or there will be consequences," Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, told Britain's Sky News channel.
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US President Joe Biden, under pressure from his allies, opened on Sunday the possibility of keeping the troops beyond August 31 to continue with the evacuation, something that for Shaheen would mean "prolonging the occupation."
The G7 will meet on Today to discuss how to proceed with the evacuation, amid European pressure to extend the military presence in Kabul.
Anyone who has seen the videos of the panicked crowds at the airport in Kabul these days will hardly be able to forget them. These are images that Joe Biden and his government were determined to prevent.
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The withdrawal of the Americans from Afghanistan should by no means be a reminder of the shameful escape from Saigon in April 1975, when diplomats and staff had to be rescued from the roof of the US embassy by helicopters. "This is obviously not Saigon," asserted Biden's Foreign Minister Antony Blinken last Sunday, when the Taliban were already occupying Kabul.
Blinken is right: Kabul is not Saigon. It's worse, in some ways.
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For the first time since the Taliban took control, signs of normal life appeared in Kabul on Wednesday morning. The city was deserted on Sunday when Taliban fighters entered the city. The streets were empty and shops and markets were closed. But since Tuesday, the streets have been buzzing again. According to an Al Jazeera journalist, some shops and restaurants are open on Wednesday, but there are no women on the streets.
It is a terrible moment. The world watches in disbelief as Afghanistan again comes under the rule of Talibans. Within a few days, one city after another fell into the hands of the religious warriors. Nobody, really nobody, had thought it possible that the Taliban would advance so quickly. The government soldiers did not oppose them, but fled in panic. And left behind a terribly rigid civilian population.
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Is Joe Biden responsible for this disaster? Did the US President cause the collapse with his decision to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021? Would a continued presence of elite US units, combined with air strikes on the advancing Taliban, prevent their triumph? No, military resistance from outside would have delayed the advance, if at all, it would not have stopped it.
Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has claimed that the armed group has captured the city of Jalalabad in the eastern province of Nangarhar. It was the only major city controlled by the government outside the country's capital, Kabul.
The Taliban say they have seized the governor's house, intelligence, police headquarters and all other high-ranking officials' buildings in Dzhalal-Abad. The official claim could not be confirmed, but Ahmad Wali, a resident of Dzhalal-Abad, told AFP: "When we woke up in the morning, the white flags of the Taliban were flying all over the city. They entered the city without a fight. Dzhalal-Abad is located about 150 km east of Kabul. The capture of Dzhalal-Abad would mean that the Taliban have also seized the highways that connect the country to Pakistan.
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