: Taliban violence: Afghan leaders have to fight for their country, says US President Joe Biden #IndiaNEWS As the Taliban continue to seize cities in Afghanistan, United States President Joe Biden on

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Taliban violence: Afghan leaders have to fight for their country, says US President Joe Biden #IndiaNEWS
As the Taliban continue to seize cities in Afghanistan, United States President Joe Biden on Tuesday said that Afghan leaders have to come together and fight for their country, Reuters reported. Clashes between the Taliban and Afghan forces have escalated as foreign troops prepare to withdraw from the country by the end of August. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Afghanistan in the last month, the BBC reported, citing the United Nations. At a media briefing on Tuesday, Biden said he did not have any regrets about pulling American troops out of Afghanistan. “Look, we spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years,� he said, according to PTI. “We trained and equipped over 3,00,000 Afghan forces. We lost thousands – lost to death and injury – thousands of American personnel.�Biden added: “I’ll insist we continue to keep the commitments we made of providing close air support, making sure that their [Afghanistan’s] air force functions and is operable, resupplying their forces with food and equipment, and paying all their salaries. But they’ve got to want to fight. They have outnumbered the Taliban.� On Tuesday, the Taliban took control of Pul-e-Khumri, the capital of Baghlan province in Afghanistan’s northern region, Reuters reported. It was the seventh provincial capital to...Read more

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