Taliban Increasingly Confident Of Victory In Afghanistan As US Withdraws

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With Afghan troops in retreat and soon to lose vital American air support, Taliban commanders are voicing exuberance about quickly seizing full control of the country and re-establishing their version of an Islamic state.

Unprecedented peace talks between the insurgents and Afghan government continue to flutter, and as violence rages across Afghanistan, militants claim to have taken nearly 30 districts since the US began its final troop withdrawal in early May.

With supply lines stretched, Afghan forces have been clobbered by Taliban fighters in recent weeks, forcing the country’s military leaders to strategically retreat from a number of rural districts.

“The arrogant Americans thought they could wipe the Taliban from the face of the earth,” said Mullah Misbah, an insurgent commander in violence-wracked Ghazni province, during a recent interview with AFP.

“But the Taliban defeated the Americans and their allies, and, God willing, an Islamic regime will be established in Afghanistan now that they are leaving.”

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{Matzav.com}


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