Taliban Intensify Offensive in Afghanistan Shake on Rice to Withdraw

In Afghanistan, the Taliban, an insurgent insurgent, is intensifying its offensive and expanding its territory as the US military withdraws.

In an interview with NHK, Taliban executives emphasized that they continue to demand the United States to implement the peace agreement signed last year, shaking the United States, which says it will completely withdraw its troops by September. I will.

In Afghanistan, based on the peace agreement signed between the United States and the insurgent Taliban in February 2020, the US military stationed there has been making a full-scale withdrawal since May.

Following the peace agreement, the Taliban have been in talks with the Afghan government since September last year, but the fighting has continued since then, and recently they have launched a large-scale attack at the northern strategic point Kunduz and other areas controlled by the Taliban. Is expanding.

Under these circumstances, one of the Taliban executives, Suhail Shaheen, responded to NHK's independent interview by the 27th.

"In the peace agreement, the United States will release combatants and executives within three months of the start of the ceasefire talks with the Afghan government," said Shaheen, who has been in underwater contact with several U.S. officials. It was supposed to work towards lifting the UN sanctions on Afghanistan, "he stressed, continuing to call on the United States to implement the agreement.

The Biden administration in the United States has said that it will continue to support the realization of security and peace even after the complete withdrawal of the military by September, but the Taliban, which is expanding its power, is against the United States. It is a shaken shape.

Conflict with Afghan government due to Taliban ceasefire conditions

Following the peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban, the Afghan government and the Taliban have been holding intermittent talks in Doha, Qatar since September last year for a ceasefire.

However, talks have been difficult due to conflicts over the conditions of the ceasefire and the state of the political system, such as the Taliban's first decision to aim for national governance based on Islamic law against the Afghan government, which demands a prompt ceasefire. ..

Under these circumstances, the government and the Taliban are still fighting in various parts of Afghanistan, and terrorism by the extremist organization IS = Islamic State is occurring one after another. The number of people increased by 177 compared to the same period last year.

Taliban officials accused the government of responding to NHK's interview, saying that "the government has given top priority to discussions on how to govern based on Islamic law, but the government will not meet", while Afghan government officials said "The Taliban's claim of fundamentalist Islamic thinking is hampering negotiations," he said, and the outlook for the talks is uncertain.

"Analysis of US intelligence agencies" "The government collapses in half a year after the withdrawal of the US military"

The Wall Street Journal, a leading U.S. newspaper, said on the 23rd that the Afghan government could collapse as early as six months after the withdrawal of U.S. forces, in connection with the expansion of the Taliban's territory. The agency analyzed it. "

The Afghan government predicted that it would survive for about two years after the withdrawal of the U.S. military, but it is possible that the analysis was reviewed in response to the rapid expansion of the Taliban, according to people familiar with U.S. intelligence agencies. It is reported that.