The US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, said today that there are no guarantees of what will happen in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of US forces from it, while the US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, said that his country will relocate its forces and resources after the withdrawal to confront terrorist threats in Afghanistan.

In an interview with Fox News, Sullivan said, "Neither I nor anyone can provide any guarantees for what will happen in Afghanistan after we withdraw from there. All the United States can do is provide the security forces, the government, and the people." Afghani with resources and capabilities, training and equipping their forces, and providing assistance to their government. "

The US official added that the United States did what could be done to undertake the Afghans to defend their country.

Gradual withdrawal

And the US President, Joe Biden, announced last Wednesday that his country would withdraw the remainder of its 2,500 soldiers from Afghanistan by May 1, with the withdrawal to be completed by the 20th anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001, and Biden pledged not to leave "longer." America's wars for the next president of the United States. "

The White House National Security Adviser was asked in a program broadcast by the American channel today about the danger of a repeat of what happened in Iraq, where ISIS fighters seized territory after the withdrawal of US forces in 2011, and this led to former President Barack Obama's decision to return the forces to Iraq. Iraq.

In a related context, the US Secretary of State said in an interview with the American "ABC" network that his country will re-locate its forces and resources after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, in order to ensure that there are no terrorist threats targeting the United States and their source in Afghanistan.

The US Secretary of State added that the Taliban committed, within the peace agreement signed in Doha in February 2020, not to allow Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to use Afghan soil to attack the interests of America and its allies.

Minister Blinken added that if the Taliban wanted to gain international recognition, they should engage in the political process in Afghanistan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in an interview with CNN that the US withdrawal would dispel "the Taliban's excuse to continue fighting," and President Ghani added, "It is clear that the ball is in the court of the Taliban and their supporters."

The Afghan official expressed his caution about the Taliban's willingness to agree to a political settlement, and said, "What I hope they will go to and what they are likely to go to, may be two different things."

German pledge

On the other hand, the German Defense Minister, Angret Kramp-Karenbauer, pledged today that her country will not abandon its Afghans, with the near end of the mission of the US-led international forces in Afghanistan after nearly two decades of war.

About 300 Afghans work for German forces in Afghanistan in translation and other jobs, according to the German Ministry of Defense.

It should be noted that on September 12, 2020, with Qatari mediation, historic peace negotiations began in Doha between the Afghan government and the Taliban, with the support of the United States, in order to end the war in Afghanistan and agree on its political future.

The country has been suffering from a war since 2001, when an international military coalition, led by Washington, overthrew the Taliban rule.

Because of its association at the time with al-Qaeda, which claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks of the same year.