{"id":3747,"date":"2020-11-04T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2020-11-04T12:48:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T12:48:13","slug":"us-strikes-taliban-in-afghanistans-helmand-province-without-breaking-the-peace-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"US strikes Taliban in Afghanistan\u2019s Helmand province without breaking the peace agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The announcement of the targeted airstrikes followed heavy clashes during the weekend that brought the Taliban to the outskirts of the Helmand\u2019s capital, Lashkar Gah. The Taliban also have been blamed for a rash of fighting around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the escalating violence, the U.S. is on course to fulfill a key commitment it made under the deal with the Taliban \u2014 to withdraw all foreign forces by May next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Military officials have said the Taliban have not held to verbal agreements with the U.S. to reduce violence against Afghan forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Taliban also have fallen short of meeting conditions in the February deal, including that they would sever ties with terrorist groups like al-Qaida \u2014 the masterminds of the 9\/11 attacks on the U.S. \u2014 and would start talks in March with the Afghan government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intra-Afghan talks only got underway in September and are expected to take months, if not years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-war-is-boring\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/warisboring.com\/us-strikes-taliban-in-afghanistans-helmand-province-without-breaking-the-peace-agreement\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The announcement of the targeted airstrikes followed heavy clashes during the weekend that brought the Taliban to the outskirts of the Helmand\u2019s capital, Lashkar Gah. The Taliban also have been blamed for a rash of fighting around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the escalating violence, the U.S. is on course to fulfill a key commitment it made under the deal with the Taliban \u2014 to withdraw all foreign forces by May next year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Military officials have said the Taliban have not held to verbal agreements with the U.S. to reduce violence against Afghan forces.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban also have fallen short of meeting conditions in the February deal, including that they would sever ties with terrorist groups like al-Qaida \u2014 the masterminds of the 9\/11 attacks on the U.S. \u2014 and would start talks in March with the Afghan government.<\/p>\n<p>The intra-Afghan talks only got underway in September and are expected to take months, if not years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[435,191,1049,158],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-afghanistan","tag-strike","tag-taliban","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}