08/31/2021 3:09 AM
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Updated 08/31/2021 3:09 AM
After two decades of conflict, originated by the United States' military intervention in Afghanistan as part of its struggle to eliminate the terrorist threat from Al Qaeda, and the untimely recovery of power by the Taliban on August 15, The US military completed its
withdrawal from the Asian country on
Monday
and the Islamic fundamentalist movement that took control carried out
different actions in celebration.
"
The world should have learned its lesson
and this is the time to enjoy victory," said the group's spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, in a live broadcast of an insurgent as he toured the Kabul airport facilities after the departure of the last American soldiers on the deadline to carry out evacuation maneuvers for foreign troops.
The Taliban took to the streets on Tuesday to celebrate
the end of two decades of US occupation
with shots in the air
.
The festivities of this type also spread to other cities, for almost an hour.
The intense gunfire created scenes of panic among the population, but the main Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, reported on Twitter that citizens had nothing to fear.
"The sounds of
the Kabul shootings are celebratory shots
to celebrate the withdrawal of US forces," he explained.
In parallel, several vehicles traveled the only runway of the “Hamid Karzai” air terminal.
Before dawn in Afghanistan, heavily armed Taliban fighters walked through hangars in the military zone between some of the seven CH-46 helicopters used by the State Department in its evacuations before rendering them useless.
The leaders of the movement
symbolically crossed the airport runway to commemorate their victory
.
Taliban troops tour the Kabul air terminal, after the departure of the Americans.
Photo Wakil Kohsar
The complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan had been the main demand of the Taliban and the precondition in all negotiations with the United States to advance the peace process and end two decades of conflict.
The last deadline to specify it was this Tuesday, August 31.
The
The last plane with US soldiers left Kabul on Monday, according to the commander of the US Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie.
Since the Taliban regained power after taking the Afghan capital by force, evacuation maneuvers managed to rescue more than 100,000 US citizens, locals and also from other countries.
The tasks weren't easy at all.
The violence gripped Kabul and was concentrated in the Kabul airport and its surrounding areas.
Thousands of people sought to leave the country regardless of the forms.
Limitless violence
Violence in the streets was on the rise as the days went by.
In this context, last Thursday an attack in the airport area
caused the death of some 170 Afghans and 13 US servicemen.
It was in the vicinity of the Abbey gate, in one of the entrances to the airport, and in the sewage canal, in the vicinity of the Baron Hotel, where Afghans who intended to leave the country were processed.The explosions were planned by the jihadist group Islamic State of the Korasan (ISIS-K).
Violence was rife in the Afghan capital throughout the conflict.
Photo Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi / AP
On Sunday, meanwhile, the United States carried out a "defensive" drone attack in Kabul against a suspected car bomb to "eliminate an imminent threat" from the Islamic State of the Khorasan (IS-K) group against the Kabul airport.
Simultaneously,
a missile explosion
killed six people in the vicinity of that air terminal.
On Monday morning, the International Airport of the Afghan capital and the surrounding regions were shaken by the rocket fire, although the attack, according to reports, was repelled by the defense system of the air terminal.
With information from agencies
DB
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