Last Team Out of Kabul: Surrounded by the Taliban

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No Easy Day puts listeners alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the 24-man team as they train for the biggest mission of their lives. When they finally entered Kabul, Taliban fighters faced little to no resistance from the Afghan National Security Forces.

Band of Brothers meets Argo in this dramatic and heartfelt dual memoir of the war in Afghanistan told by two men from opposite worlds. No country in history has done more to airlift out the residents of another country than we have done. In various parts of the country, girls were taken out of high school and women were barred from universities due to reasons of "capacity". Afghanistan: Kabul to shift power to 'transitional administration' after Taliban enter city – live updates". After the United States' withdrawal on 31 August, a group of about 1,000 people, including US citizens and Afghans holding American visas, were still stranded in Kabul.Because we were attacked by Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda on September 11th, 2001, and they were based in Afghanistan. We face threats from al-Shabaab in Somalia; al Qaeda affiliates in Syria and the Arabian Peninsula; and ISIS attempting to create a caliphate in Syria and Iraq, and establishing affiliates across Africa and Asia. Weeks before the offensive, in April 2021, the US State Department urged American civilians in Afghanistan to "leave as soon as possible on available commercial flights".

State-run media in China compared the situation in Afghanistan to the United States' relations with Taiwan. Ross Douthat of The New York Times compared the 1992 fall of Kabul with the fall in 2021 and remarked that the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan managed to survive against the Afghan mujahideen for 3 years after the withdrawal of Soviet forces, compared to the few months for the American-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.And by the time I came to office, the Taliban was in its strongest military position since 2001, controlling or contesting nearly half of the country. m. local time, the Taliban claimed to have taken over the Arg, which was left vacated by President Ghani earlier that day. According to Maley, the collapse of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan is due to Biden's inexperience in the field of foreign policy, Western lack of understanding of Afghan society, and the legitimization that the Taliban received with the Trump-led US–Taliban deal.