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The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taliban forces, explained

On Sunday morning, the Taliban successfully reached Afghanistan’s capital city, Kabul, following <a href="https://www.vox.com/22618215/afghanistan-news-taliban-advance">an accelerated sweep</a> across the country, with the militant group quickly taking hold of the final government-controlled holdouts within the last week.
The Islamist militant group’s successful capture of the capital marks the final stages of the Taliban’s full takeover of the country. The Taliban has accelerated its operations to gain control over Afghanistan since last year’s Doha deal in Qatar between the insurgents and the US under former President Donald Trump, who agreed to a complete withdrawal of US military forces. As an August 31 deadline for US troop withdrawal drew near, the Taliban began a rapid seizure last week of outposts, towns, and cities, leading all the way to Kabul.
Most telling of the developments on the ground was perhaps the departure of President Ashraf Ghani, whose exit from the country on Sunday was confirmed by Abdullah Abdullah, Afghanistan’s top negotiating official, without mincing words. “The former Afghan president has left the nation,” Abdullah, the head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, said in a video announcement on Facebook. “He has left the nation in this state; [for that] God will hold him to account.”
In a separate, later announcement, Ghani said he left the country to avoid bloodshed as Taliban forces entered the presidential palace. By midday, a Taliban official announced the group’s plans to rename the state as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban official says they will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1426946228475121671?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2021</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-military-collapse-taliban/">According to the Washington Post</a>, the Taliban’s lightning insurgency over the last month saw the capture of major government-controlled cities. Kunduz was the first “key city” to fall to insurgents following days of negotiations led by tribal elders, resulting in its surrender, reported the Post. After that, it was almost like a domino effect — other major hubs like Kandahar and Herat fell to the Taliban through negotiated deals with local officials. These deals with the Taliban typically involved surrendering control of the cities in exchange for safe passage home or payoffs.
By early morning Sunday, Taliban forces had reached the government-controlled city of Jalalabad, where officials surrendered without a single shot fired. Soon, the remaining cities surrounding Kabul quickly fell into the insurgents’ hands. Taliban forces reached the capital’s gates within hours.
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Civilian flights cannot leave the Kabul airport because people overwhelm the planes.
This Kam Air flight apparently couldn’t take off because hundreds of people have been trying to board <a href="https://t.co/Q1HgT0gU5Y">pic.twitter.com/Q1HgT0gU5Y</a>
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While <a href="https://www.vox.com/22618215/afghanistan-news-taliban-advance">analysts didn’t expect</a> the Taliban’s insurgency to succeed this soon, the group’s strategy to take control of the capital through peaceful negotiations instead of a violent offensive proved effective quickly. An exodus of residents and foreign diplomats began as the Taliban entered negotiations with Afghan officials.
Neighboring countries and allies have stepped in to help civilians evacuate the country — the United Arab Emirates’s foreign ministry said it would be <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-says-working-facilitate-evacuation-foreign-diplomats-afghanistan-2021-08-15/">facilitating the evacuation</a> of foreign diplomats and staff through that country’s airports, while Germany has said it would <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sending-military-planes-to-afghanistan-for-evacuation/a-58872743">send military planes</a> to evacuate German nationals and Afghan support staff. US embassy employees and citizens scrambled to evacuate before the Afghan capital was taken.
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<figcaption>Afghans line up outside a local bank on August 15, 2021, to retrieve cash as fears of a Taliban takeover of Kabul grow, despite the group’s assurance that they would not take the city by force.</figcaption>
<cite>Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images</cite></figure>
While the collapse of the Afghan government was precipitated quickly over the course of the last week, it was primarily born out of uncertainty created by talks held in Doha over a year and a half ago. The agreement was finalized in February 2020 between the US and the Taliban, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51689443">confirming</a> a full American withdrawal along with reduced allied forces.
US officials and Afghan military officials described a demoralized military following the Doha agreement, seeing the deal as the government’s guaranteed defeat against the Taliban. “They saw that document as the end,” an Afghan special forces officer <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/15/afghanistan-military-collapse-taliban/">told the Post</a>, referring to government-aligned officials. “The day the deal was signed we saw the change. Everyone was just looking out for himself. It was like [the United States] left us to fail.”
Conditions within the Afghan military quickly deteriorated thereafter, exacerbated by a combination of corruption — many Afghan officers claimed they had not received salaries in months — and an attempt for survival against the Taliban, as US military presence began to shrink. In late July, President Joe Biden reiterated the US’s commitment to fulfilling the Doha agreement, guaranteeing a complete withdrawal of troops by August 31.
“We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build,” Biden <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/08/biden-says-u-s-withdrawal-afghanistan-conclude-august-31/7900297002/">said</a>. “It’s the right and the responsibility of Afghan people alone to decide their future and how they want to run their country.” Political observers have criticized the move, arguing that such an abrupt exit from Afghanistan could leave the country vulnerable to overthrow by the Taliban. Still, the deadline for withdrawal loomed.
As anxieties over the US’s exit grew, the Taliban began sending small groups of fighters to government-controlled rural outposts, striking deals with low-level representatives of the standing Afghan government through bribes or safety guarantees. Although Afghan officers say that the country’s elite military units remained committed to safeguarding the government holdouts, without support from local leaders and military personnel on the ground, their efforts to defend the country ultimately failed. What’s to be seen is how the now in-control Taliban manages the transition and handles political rivals and those it views as enemies.
 
 
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US, Allies Urge Taliban To Let Afghans Leave

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Washington:
The United States on Sunday led more than 65 nations in urging the Taliban to let Afghans leave the country, warning of accountability for any abuses.
"The United States joins the international community in affirming that Afghans and international citizens who wish to depart must be allowed to do so," Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote on Twitter as the State Department released a statement signed by its close allies.
"Those in positions of power and authority across Afghanistan bear responsibility -- and accountability -- for the protection of human life," the joint statement said.
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Haiti Hospitals Struggle To Treat Thousands Injured In Massive Earthquake

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The violent quake destroyed over 13,600 buildings and thousands more were damaged (File)
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Les Cayes:
Hunched on benches, curled up in chairs or even lying the floor, those injured in the powerful earthquake that violently shook Haiti on Saturday crowded an overburdened hospital near the epicenter.
The emergency room in Les Cayes, in southwestern Haiti, which was devastated by the 7.2-magnitude quake on Saturday morning that killed at least 724 people, is expecting reinforcements to help treat some of the thousands of injured.
"At the time of the earthquake, there were only three doctors in the emergency service," said Dr Michelet Paurus.
"This morning, it's getting better because we received orthopedists, surgeons and almost 42 residents distributed across all the hospitals of the department."
Dr Rudolphe Steven Jacques, 26, came to the hard-hit area from the capital Port-au-Prince.
"The lack of equipment is chronic," he told AFP, gesturing to a woman sat in a corner with a large open wound on her leg.
"This woman has been waiting for a while for me to do a suture but I don't have a tray for that at the moment."
Doctors and patients jostle in the small hospital rooms, as even more patients pour in.
"Many more injured are still arriving this morning, I wasn't expecting that. They are coming from more remote areas," Jacques said, adding the emergency service workers were "doing our best to treat people."
The violent quake destroyed over 13,600 buildings and thousands more were damaged, trapping hundreds of people under rubble and leaving more than 5,700 injured, the country's civil protection agency said.
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Hospitals in the country's third-largest city near the epicenter of the quake were quickly saturated with the massive influx of injured.
"When the earthquake happened... a tremor threw me in the air and I landed on my arm," recalled Venel Senat, in his forties. "Neighbors came to help me get a taxi. I went to several hospitals, but they were overloaded.
"This morning I came here and I was finally taken care of. I had an X-ray for free and they also put this cast on, free of charge," he said, as he waited for the medication prescribed to him to be available at the hospital, the pharmacy in town still shuttered.
Already treated but under observation, many injured settled on the lawns around the buildings, traumatized by frequent aftershocks and worried damaged structures may collapse.
"People are afraid to go back inside, but tonight it's going to rain," said Paurus, moving swiftly between departments.
"We're going to try to make them come inside this room because the roof is sheet metal. For the children in the pediatric ward, we're going to try to set up tents in the courtyard," he added.
Already injured, grieving and afraid to shelter indoors, Les Cayes residents now dread the torrential rains, violent winds and mudslides that could come with Tropical Depression Grace on Monday.
"If it rains as much as we predict, we really don't know what we will do. It's one hit after another," said Paurus.
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US Lowers Flag At Kabul Embassy, Secures Airport

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"Almost all" personnel from the embassy have relocated to the airport (File)
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Washington:
The United States lowered the flag on its embassy in Kabul and has relocated almost all staff to the airport, where US forces are taking over air traffic control, officials said Sunday.
"We are completing a series of steps to secure the Hamid Karzai International Airport to enable the safe departure of US and allied personnel from Afghanistan via civilian and military flights," the Pentagon and State Department said in a joint statement.
"Almost all" personnel from the embassy have relocated to the airport including the acting ambassador, Ross Wilson, who remains in touch with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, a State Department spokesperson said.
"The American flag has been lowered from the US embassy compound and is now securely located with embassy staff," the spokesperson said.
The shuttering of the US embassy, which was one of the largest in the world, comes nearly 20 years after the United States returned following the defeat of the Taliban regime.
With stunning speed, the Taliban retook the country in little more than a week after President Joe Biden began the final withdrawal of troops, closing America's longest war.
The United States has sent 6,000 troops to the airport to fly out embassy personnel as well as Afghans who assisted the United States as interpreters or in other support roles and now fear retribution.
Their mission will be "focused solely on facilitating these efforts and will be taking over air traffic control," the joint statement said.
On Monday "and over the coming days, we will be transferring out of the country thousands of American citizens who have been resident in Afghanistan, as well as locally employed staff of the US mission in Kabul and their families and other particularly vulnerable Afghan nationals," it continued.
Witnesses on social media have complained about disruptions to commercial flights as priority was given to the US airlifts out of Kabul.
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Roadblocks Erected In Sydney As Australia Battles Delta Outbreak

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Tougher restrictions took effect in Sydney, the epicentre of Australia's outbreak. (File)
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Sydney:
Hundreds of unarmed defence personnel joined thousands of extra police to set up roadblocks and enforce COVID-19 lockdown rules in parts of Sydney on Monday, while dozens of new venues were added to a list of exposure sites in Melbourne.
Australia is witnessing a third wave with its largest cities - Sydney and Melbourne - in lockdown along with the capital Canberra amid a slow vaccination rollout that has inoculated only 26% of people above 16 years of age.
Tougher restrictions took effect in Sydney, the epicentre of Australia's outbreak, after seven weeks of stay-home orders failed to stop the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the novel coronavirus.
With the virus spreading into towns outside Sydney, the capital of New South Wales state, lockdown restrictions were imposed statewide for a week until Saturday night.
In Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, authorities detected 21 new locally acquired cases, down from 25 on Sunday as virus-exposed venues in the city topped 500.
Australia said on Sunday it had bought about 1 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from Poland with more than half rushed to inoculate the 20- to 39-year-olds in the worst-affected suburbs of Sydney.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison downplayed suggestions that the United States did not volunteer to provide emergency supplies of coronavirus vaccines from its stockpile for Australia, one of its close allies.
"We have an excellent relationship with the United States, but you have to focus on what is in front of you and what you need to do. That is what Sydney needed," Morrison told Nine News on Monday.
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Taliban Spokesman Says "War Is Over In Afghanistan": Report

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"We ask all countries and entities to sit with us to settle any issues," Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said
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Cairo:
The spokesman for the Taliban's political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community.
Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form of regime would be clear soon.
The group respected women's and minorities' rights and freedom of expression within Sharia law, Naeem added.
Naeem said the Taliban wanted to have peaceful relations and was keen to develop several channels of communication it had already opened with foreign countries.
"We ask all countries and entities to sit with us to settle any issues", he said in an interview with Al Jazeera TV.
Taliban terrorists entered Kabul on Sunday and President Ashraf Ghani left Afghanistan saying he wanted to avoid bloodshed, bringing the Islamist militants close to taking over the country two decades after they were overthrown by a US-led invasion.
Naeem said that no diplomatic body or headquarters was targeted in the Taliban's approach and the group would provide safety for citizens and diplomatic missions.
Ghani's escape was unexpected and "even those close to him did not expect it," Naeem said.
"We are ready to have a dialogue with all Afghan figures and will guarantee them the necessary protection," he told Al Jazeera Mubasher TV.
The Taliban was seeing the fruits of its efforts and sacrifices for 20 years, he said, and would adopt a policy of non-interference in others' affairs in return for non-interference in Afghanistan.
"We have reached what we were seeking, which is the freedom of our country and the independence of our people," he said. "We will not allow anyone to use our lands to target anyone, and we do not want to harm others."
"We do not think that foreign forces will repeat their failed experience in Afghanistan once again."
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