usamali:
Trump was a President for a reason.

This would never had happened if Trump was in power.

FirstbornWds:
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It's amusing how he dragged the USA into this discussion. I had to go back to re-read if there is anything that suggests that the US is in distress or maybe that was why they left but found nothing.

RodgersAkpafu:

Afghanistan is a graveyard of its own people

Millions of its civilians killed and buried in that wasteland
It's a case of imperial powers coming
Killing millions
Then leaving cos it's no longer worth it

The Afghan are the real losers here

Righteousness2:
I Repeat what I said here few weeks ago,

The Nations I pity today are the Nations that Trust in USA to Help them. The United States of America today needs Help.

The USA is on a Clear path to Destruction Spiritually and Physically. The Ground work is being Prepared. Babylon the Great is Falling Except an Unusal Mercy Fall on them that leads them back to the Principles of their Founding Fathers. But with what is Happening there today, it is a Free Fall.

HonNL:


After two decades of fighting in Afghanistan, the Taliban is on the verge of seizing power again for the first time since 2001.

The fundamentalist force that seeks to install Islamic law has blitzed across the country, overrunning one city after another and closing in on Kabul as the United States has withdrawn troops this summer. Few places outside the imperiled Afghan capital remain under the control of the Western-backed government, which is pleading for the international community to help fend off a complete takeover.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are fleeing, setting off a humanitarian crisis that could ripple around the globe. Those who’ve stayed are reckoning with the return of extremist rule under the Taliban’s interpretation of Islam. Militants have shuttered girls’ schools, banned smartphones in some places and forced young men to join their ranks, they say.

What is the Taliban?

The Taliban first rose to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, formed by guerrilla fighters who drove out Soviet forces in the previous decade with support from the CIA and Pakistani intelligence services. Most of their members are Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in the country. The name means students in Pashto.

The founder, Mohammad Omar, a commander in the anti-Soviet resistance, launched the movement in 1994 to secure the southeastern city of Kandahar, which was plagued by crime and violence. The Taliban’s vision of justice helped them amass power. “At the time people really wanted law and order, and there was none,” said Kamran Bokhari of the Newlines Institute, a foreign policy think tank.

In the fall of 1996, the Taliban seized Kabul and declared the country an Islamic emirate. Taliban rule was brutal and repressive. Women had virtually no rights, were barred from education and forced to wear clothing that covered their entire body. Music and other forms of media were banned.

The Taliban’s ideology was similar to that of its counterpart al-Qaeda, though its interests were limited to ruling Afghanistan. In exchange for help fighting groups aligned with the nation’s government, Taliban leaders harbored Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda members involved in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. A U.S.-led coalition ousted the regime later that year.

In late July 2015, the Afghan government confirmed that Omar had died in April 2013 in Karachi, Pakistan.

How did the Taliban regain strength?

After being ousted, the Taliban scattered. Some leaders found sanctuary in Pakistan, where they began to fortify themselves with help from the Pakistani security establishment. In Afghanistan, the presence of U.S. forces helped provide the Taliban with an anti-colonialist rallying cry for recruits. So did corruption in the Afghan government.

“For two decades now, the Taliban movement has been slowly chipping away, village by village,” said Robert Crews, an expert on Afghanistan at Stanford University. “It’s a very sophisticated kind of ground game of grass-roots mobilization.”

Militants also replenished their ranks through a campaign of fear and violence. People who enlisted in police forces or the national army were assassinated. Public intellectuals, journalists, media figures and others who represent the young face of Afghanistan’s civil society were also targeted.

Afghan troops, their ranks dogged by incompetence and corruption, have withered in the face of the Taliban incursion.

“People are asking, ‘Do I want to die for an administration that has not sent my unit ammunition? We’ve not been paid in months, we’re out of food. Now the Americans are gone',” Crews said. “It seems kind of hopeless.”

The grand illusion: Hiding the truth about the Afghanistan war’s ‘conclusion

How is the Taliban funded and armed?

The Taliban gets its funding from a variety of sources. Some money comes from the opium trade and drug dealing, or other crimes such as smuggling. The group taxes and extorts farms and other businesses. Militants are sometimes involved in kidnapping for ransom.

The group also gets donations from a wide array of benefactors who support its cause or view it as an useful asset, experts said.

“It’s not really the case that they need a whole lot of money to operate,” Bokhari said. “They don’t live in big houses. They don’t wear fancy clothes. The biggest expense is salary and weapons and training.”

Arms are easy to come by in a region awash in them. Some are donated, others purchased. Many are stolen.

“As the Afghanistan national army has folded,” Crews said, “one of the first moves the Taliban has made in moving into new territory is to go to a government headquarters, arrest or kill those figures, open the prisons, and then go to the government bases and seize the weapons.”

In some tribal areas, including in Pakistan, a “cottage industry” of foundries has sprung up where workers fashion assault-style rifles, according to Bokhari.

‘Why did my friend get blown up? For what?’: Afghanistan war veterans horrified by Taliban gains

What is the Taliban’s goal?

The Taliban’s aim is simple, experts said: to take back what the group lost in the early 2000s.

“They want their Islamic emirate back in power,” Crews said. “They want their vision of Islamic law.”

He continued: “They don’t want a parliament. They don’t want electoral politics. They have an emir and they have a council of mullahs, and that’s the vision they see as best for Islam.”

There does not seem to be a single leader of the Taliban, but the group seems to have several main leaders.

Whether life under Taliban rule will be the same as it once was remains unclear. There’s little doubt that the group wants to confine women to their homes, end mixed-gender education and bring back a society with Islamic law at the center.

But a civil society has burgeoned in the past two decades that didn’t exist before. Women have assumed public positions not just in Kabul but also in smaller cities. Cellphones and social media are common. Experts questioned whether the Taliban would be able to govern a population that has changed.

“There are lot of people who are better connected to the world through social media and say, ‘Hey, why can’t we have a life like that?’ ” Crews said. “What will they do with a society that believes in pluralism and doesn’t believe in monopolization of power? To what extent will Taliban violence silence those voices?”

oluwaseyi0:
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Freedom fighters that what to stop all girls from going to school, snatch away multi religion society, cancel use of phone, kill anyone who doesn't follow Islam? And you call that freedom, chai seems 98 percent of Muslims are truly terrorist

emmy512:

Bleep you saying?
The US is what even held their shit together all this years.

Righteousness2:
I Repeat what I said here few weeks ago,

The Nations I pity today are the Nations that Trust in USA to Help them. The United States of America today needs Help.

The USA is on a Clear path to Destruction Spiritually and Physically. The Ground work is being Prepared. Babylon the Great is Falling Except an Unusal Mercy Fall on them that leads them back to the Principles of their Founding Fathers. But with what is Happening there today, it is a Free Fall.

Hammyaladin:
Iraq is Babylon and Jesus is middlesthern!!



Is Jesus from USA

emmy512:

Bleep you saying?
The US is what even held their shit together all this years.

Hammyaladin:
Iraq is Babylon and Jesus is middlesthern!!
Is Jesus from USA

YorubaKinging:
The end is near

Everything that has been happening in the middle East is a perfect craved out plan by the west

From Saddam Hussein's days of weapon of mass destruction (which turned out to be false)

USA made war with Iran and created isis and Taliban

Just few weeks after USA troos pull out, Taliban are gaining ground

We don't need a sooth Sayer to tell us what's going to be the end of these

Ladies and gentlemen, we just got ourselves the beginning of the world war 3..


The end is near ..... Hallelujah

southniyikaye:
in Afghanistan or where?

Kelvinpam:


Since Trump lost the election, you are becoming a nuisance. Always predicting doom for USA and the world. Imagine if trump was still the president, would you come up with such crap?

Can't you preach christianity without all these cooked stories?

PAWG:
Seems folks are happy about the Taliban taking over Afghanistan. Y’all are bleeped

Lubumbashi:
India now has a much bigger problem than Pakistan to worry about .

sigiyaya112:
You are a complete Id!ot, no one listens to what a f00l like you has to say!!

vedaxcool:
Lol when Buhari said corruption is dangerous many idiots with 2 ouce of a brain said it is vital. See how corruption defeated an entire government structure that consumed lives andcost trillions of dollars to put up.it was not Taliban that win it was corruption that defeated their enemies.

The Taliban are not stupid as the Afghan government to embrace corruption they budget ensured the money is used to ensure their dominance.

Corruption remains a cancer many nairalanders subscribe to it because it guaranteed crumbs coming their way. Corruption allowed useless rag tag bokoharam become a monster almost consuming the Nigerian state. Attempts to prosecute all those who looted away out military were met with useless well coordinated propaganda against FG.

Let this be a warning, corruption destroys faster than the Taliban can.

thatsleepboy1:



Ode, USA is Babylon, don't be stupid. Read Revelation 18

NofiuFade:
To serve in US military shouldn't be do or die affair imagine someone papa spending almost 20 years In war ravage region with no hope of ending the conflict in sight, abeg!

longetivity:
Southern Nigeria shine ur eye

tommy589:
Those nations that shares border with Afghanistan will soon be on a long thing

Sheybi they looked the other way when US and allies were engaging the Taliban. Let's see who gets affected most when the fundamentalists in Pakistan, China etc gets more military support and safe haven to run to after Taliban is in total control of Afghanistan