Acceptance: The Taliban claimed control of 85 percent of Afghanistan’s territory on Friday, hours after US President Joe Biden ordered his troops out of the war-torn nation.
The Taliban claimed that its fighters had captured the border town of Islam Kala, completing an arc of territory from the Iranian border to the border with China.
A delegation of Taliban officials in Moscow said they controlled about 250 of Afghanistan’s 398 districts.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also confirmed this and said that crossing the Islam Kala border was “under our complete control”.
Meanwhile, Afghan government officials in Kabul said: “Efforts are underway to recapture the site”.
“All Afghan security forces, including border units, are present in the area and efforts are on to recapture the site,” AFP quoted Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian as saying.
This comes after the US President had earlier said that his country’s military mission would end on August 31.
However, Biden acknowledged that it was “highly improbable” that Kabul would be able to control the entire country.
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“The status quo is not an option,” he said, adding that “he will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan”.
The US President said that the Afghan people should decide their future.
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