Asked at a news conference on Tuesday evening whether US plan to withdraw from Afghanistan would change in the face of widespread Taliban attacks, US President Joe Biden said no.
“We have spent more than $ 1 trillion there over the past 20 years training and equipping more than 300,000 Afghan troops,” Biden said. “Afghan officials must come together. They must fight for themselves and their country.”
“The United States will live up to its commitments to Afghanistan through air support and the deployment of its air force,” he said.
“I do not regret my decision to leave Afghanistan and they must fight,” he said. “They outnumber the Taliban.”
Following the February 2020 agreement between the United States and the Taliban and the signing of a “peace agreement” between the two sides, the withdrawal of US troops and allies from Afghanistan began. However, in recent weeks, the war in Afghanistan has intensified and the Taliban have managed to seize many parts of Afghanistan.
According to Fars, the Taliban claimed in their latest advance on Tuesday that they had taken control of the Farah center, the seventh province in Afghanistan to be controlled by the group this week.
Local sources in Farah province say the city of Farah, the capital of the province, has fallen to Taliban fighters.
Farah is the seventh province in Afghanistan to fall to the Taliban in the past week, after Kunduz, Zaranj, Talqan, Sar-e-Pul, Aibak and Sheberghan.
