{"id":1104585,"date":"2021-12-10T00:28:41","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104585"},"modified":"2021-12-10T00:28:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T05:28:43","slug":"centcom-commander-mckenzie-difficult-to-see-isis-k-and-al-qaeda-targets-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/centcom-commander-mckenzie-difficult-to-see-isis-k-and-al-qaeda-targets-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"CENTCOM Commander McKenzie: &#039;Difficult&#039; to See ISIS-K and Al Qaeda Targets in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcentcom-commander-mckenzie-difficult-to-see-isis-k-and-al-qaeda-targets-in-afghanistan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1104585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/united-syria-april1-14-2018-file-photo-marine-lt-gen-kenneth-frank-mckenzie-speaks-media-av-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>During an interview aired on Thursday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d Commander of United States Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie said that the military is continuing to look for ISIS-K and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from the country, but seeing those targets is \u201ca difficult thing.\u201d McKenzie also said that \u201cin the long term, perhaps we can re-establish some relationships on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewsHour\u201d Foreign Affairs and Defense Correspondent Nick Schifrin&nbsp;asked, \u201cSince the U.S. withdrawal, have you identified any targets, and have you proposed any airstrikes inside Afghanistan?\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>McKenzie answered, \u201cSo, those are all operational details. I would tell you that we continue to look in Afghanistan for particularly, ISIS-K targets and al Qaeda targets. And that process continues.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Schifrin then asked, \u201cAre you able to see those targets?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McKenzie responded, \u201cIt\u2019s a difficult thing. You know, we keep \u2014 we\u2019re able to bring platforms in overhead to take a look. We\u2019re able to \u2014 in the long term, perhaps we can re-establish some relationships on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Ian&nbsp;Hanchett on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanHanchett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@IanHanchett<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview aired on Thursday\u2019s \u201cPBS NewsHour,\u201d Commander of United States Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie said that the military is continuing to look for ISIS-K and al Qaeda &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}