Afghanistan will become ‘US graveyard’, Taliban tells Trump
Kabul — The Taliban has warned that Afghanistan would become "a graveyard" for the US, after President Donald Trump cleared the way for thousands more American troops to be sent to the war-torn country. "If America doesn’t withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, soon Afghanistan will become another graveyard for this superpower in the 21st century," Zabiullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taliban in Afghanistan, said in a statement released on Tuesday. He said America should think of an exit strategy "instead of continuing the war". "As long as there is one US soldier in our land, and they continue to impose war on us, we, with a high morale, will continue our jihad," Mujahid said. Trump backtracked from his promise to rapidly end America’s longest war in his first formal address to the nation as commander-in-chief late on Monday, though he did not offer specifics. He said he had concluded that "the consequences of a rapid exit are both predictable and unacceptable", leaving a vacuum t...
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