“If they rear their heads and become a threat, we will take the appropriate measures,” added Milley during his speech in front of the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and within the framework of the general evaluation that the United States authorities are carrying out of the situation in the country since the Taliban reconquest that culminated in August last year.
Meanwhile, the Office of the United States Special Representative for Reconstruction in Afghanistan (SIGAR) reported that since the Taliban came to power, six million more Afghans ended up in a humanitarian emergency, for a total of 24.4 million peoplecompared to the 18.4 million existing in 2021.
He also found a increase in the number of internally displaced persons within Afghanistanfrom 670,000 at the beginning of August last year (just a few days before the fall of the capital, Kabul), to 710,000 at the end of last year.
The Taliban in power argue that the lack of international recognition undermined their ability to stabilize the country, and they have repeatedly called for the lifting of international sanctions championed by the United States, which gave, for example, the order to freeze millions of dollars from the Central Bank of the country in the form of assets abroad.
They also denied that the Islamic State – through its Afghan subsidiary, Islamic State in Khorasan Province – is operating in an organized manner in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State presence is very small,” said the Taliban’s main spokesman, Deputy Information Minister Zabihullah Mujahid.
An attack, claimed by the jihadist group, that occurred last week in a Kabul mosque left at least thirty dead and dozens more injured, according to information in the hands of the United Nations Security Council.
The attack against the Khalifa Sahib mosque followed another perpetrated against the Maulana Sekander mosque in Kunduz province on April 22, which left 25 dead, and attacks on two minibuses in Mazar e Sharif that left nine dead.
Source: Ambito
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