{"id":608629,"date":"2021-08-02T13:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608629"},"modified":"2021-08-02T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:20:52","slug":"taliban-target-afghan-prisons-amid-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-target-afghan-prisons-amid-offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Target Afghan Prisons Amid Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Ftaliban-target-afghan-prisons-amid-offensive%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=608629&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 readability=\"29.906542056075\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Thousands of jihadists could escape as US troops withdraw<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-scaled-e1627920357155.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234373117-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tAn Afghan National Army commando stands guard along the road in Enjil district of Herat province on August 1, 2021, as skirmishes between Afghan National Army and Taliban continues. (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI \/ AFP) (Photo by HOSHANG HASHIMI\/AFP via Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 2, 2021 1:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"63.047775947282\">\n<p><span>Taliban forces are targeting prisons across Afghanistan that hold some 5,000 of their fighters amid an offensive to take back control of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Central prisons in provincial capitals throughout the country are high value targets for jihadist militants, who are waging an offensive against dwindling Afghan security forces as American troops withdraw from the country. According to the <\/span><i><span>Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span>,<\/span><span> Afghan government and military officials are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2021\/07\/31\/afghanistan-taliban-prisoners\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main\"><span>voicing<\/span><\/a><span> concern about the security of prisons and their ability to defend them from the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;This is a big problem,&#8221; a senior security official in Kabul said about prison security. &#8220;Hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Afghan officials are scrambling to keep the most dangerous imprisoned Taliban fighters detained. The government transferred 200 to 300 militants imprisoned across the country to a prison in Kabul, where the government&#8217;s control is more secure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The bid to seize Afghan prisons comes as the Taliban surge in strength. President Joe Biden admitted the terrorist group has returned to levels of military strength not seen since 2001, as the group <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.longwarjournal.org\/mapping-taliban-control-in-afghanistan\"><span>controls<\/span><\/a><span> more than half of the districts in Afghanistan. Another 116 districts remain contested and could fall in the coming weeks, with experts predicting that the Afghan government could collapse within six months of the United States&#8217; withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Instability in Afghanistan has also put an American citizen at risk. The <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/the-taliban-kidnapped-a-navy-vet-in-afghanistan-the-biden-administration-risks-leaving-him-behind\/\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> in July that the Biden administration risks leaving Navy veteran and civilian contractor Mark Frerichs behind in the country as troops pull out. Taliban fighters kidnapped Frerichs in January 2020, and experts say American leverage in negotiations decreases daily as the terrorists grow in strength.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Thousands of jihadists could escape as US troops withdraw  An Afghan National Army commando stands guard along the road in Enjil district of Herat &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608629","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\/608629","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608629\/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=608629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}