Asia Taliban take Herat, Afghanistan's third largest city
Former US President Donald Trump on Thursday lashed out at his successor Joe Biden for failing to put conditions on the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, calling the violent rise of the Taliban
"unacceptable."
Republican Trump said the withdrawal of US troops, which Democrat Biden anticipates for Aug. 31 and is now almost complete, would have been "a very different and
much more successful
withdrawal
" if he remained president.
Under Trump, the United States negotiated an agreement with the Taliban in Doha in 2020, under which the United States would withdraw all its troops in May 2021 in exchange for various security guarantees.
Those guarantees included a promise by the militants to hold
peace talks
with the Kabul government, not to attack the United States or its interests, and not to support groups like Al Qaeda in attacking the United States.
When Biden took office earlier this year, he delayed the withdrawal deadline and did not set conditions for it.
"If I were now president, the world would see that our withdrawal from Afghanistan would be a withdrawal based on conditions," Trump said in a statement.
"Personally, I have had conversations with senior Taliban leaders in which they have understood that what they are doing now would not have been acceptable," he said.
"It would have been a very different and much more successful withdrawal, and
the Taliban understood that better than anyone,"
Trump stressed.
Trump, who despite having lost the elections is still the greatest force in the Republican party, did not give details of what he would have done to stop the insurgents' advances.
The Kabul authorities
have lost control
of most of northern and western Afghanistan, while several cities across the country are disputed.
Some US officials fear that the Taliban could take control of Kabul within three months of the August 31 deadline.
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