{"id":116478,"date":"2021-08-15T12:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116478"},"modified":"2021-08-15T12:43:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T16:43:38","slug":"the-taliban-enters-kabul-and-demands-unconditional-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116478","title":{"rendered":"The Taliban enters Kabul and demands unconditional surrender"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_59576\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59576\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59576 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saigon-hubert-van-es-500x328.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saigon-hubert-van-es-500x328.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saigon-hubert-van-es-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Saigon-hubert-van-es.jpg 825w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59576\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">History forgotten is history repeated. <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Taliban entered Kabul while demanding an unconditional surrender from the central government. With helicopters flying overhead to evacuate western staff from embassies, people went about pulling out money from ATM machines and headed for an exit out of Afghanistan. The Taliban claims that they want a peaceful transfer of power and that they would not interfere with private citizens.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From The Washington Examiner:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a stunning rout, the Taliban seized nearly all of Afghanistan in just over a week, despite the hundreds of billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and NATO over nearly two decades to build up Afghan security forces. Just days earlier, an American military assessment estimated it would be a month before the capital would come under insurgent pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Taliban swiftly defeated, co-opted, or sent Afghan security forces fleeing from wide swaths of the country, even though they had some air support from the U.S. military.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the insurgents entered the outskirts of Kabul but apparently remained outside of the city&#8217;s downtown. Sporadic gunfire echoed at times though the streets were largely quiet.<\/p>\n<p>Workers fled government offices, and smoke rose over the city as embassy staff burned important documents.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Qatar&#8217;s Al-Jazeera English satellite news channel that the insurgents are &#8220;awaiting a peaceful transfer of Kabul city.&#8221; He declined to offer specifics on any possible negotiations between his forces and the government.<\/p>\n<p>But when pressed on what kind of agreement the Taliban wanted, Shaheen acknowledged that they were seeking an unconditional surrender by the central government.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban negotiators headed to the presidential palace Sunday to discuss the transfer, said an Afghan official who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals. It remained unclear when that transfer would take place.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Washington Examiner has the full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/taliban-storms-kabul-demands-unconditional-surrender-of-government-us-scrambles-to-pull-out-embassy-workers\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taliban entered Kabul while demanding an unconditional surrender from the central government. 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