"As Coalition Forces Leave, The Taliban Are Reasserting... " Topic

…Their Control In Afghanistan.

"Insurgents now control about 80% of Gizab district in Uruzgan province four years after successful revolt, sources say

When the people of Gizab district rose up and ousted their Taliban rulers four years ago, international forces touted the district as a success story of civil courage and a milestone in the decade-long war. But now the district in Uruzgan, central Afghanistan, is about to fall back under the control of the insurgents, according to officials and community leaders.

The insurgent offensive comes a year after international troops withdrew from Uruzgan, and as UK troops are closing their largest base in Helmand, another embattled province in the south. A month of intense fighting in Gizab has displaced up to 500 families, and Taliban fighters are forcing residents to provide them with food and transportation and threatening people to stop them cooperating with the government, elders from the area said…"

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Amicalement
Armand

…and they go back to blowing up religious sites, chopping off little girls heads, continuing their record breaking heroin cultivation, and training up terrorists.

Good times.

What a useless and ultimately monstrous country in the scheme of things.

Child mortality is 50% by the age of five, just like the middle ages. And educated Afghans know how backward their benighted "country" is too, and feel their inferiority acutely….

Glad USA left that place.
Hope never return there.

Amicalement
Armand

The US and some NATO is still there, and won't really all be gone for some months. Maybe a year. The Taliban are lost in the Koran/Shia' Law void along with their fellow islamists in Daesh in Iraq and Syria. And others, like AQ, BH, etc., et al. They live in a Hell of their own making. And nothing the modern outside world can do to help/fix any islamists to move them into modernity. Short of termination, it appears, based on over 13 years of war. The most recent iteration of the West vs. islamists. Hopefully, like imperialism, Nazism and Communism of the past. Most of fanatical islam with be in the archives of history. It appears it will take some time and may lives, mostly moslem, before this happens. If ever …

US/NATO will be staying there to at least 2016 with about 10,000 US and 2,000 European troops.

I suspect that will be extended indefinitely and eventually they'll start doing more "surges" and upping the troop numbers as the ANA loses control.

Yes, I heard similar Thomas … hopefully the only troops that take losses during this time will be among the ANA and ANP … and the Talis of course …