{"id":610057,"date":"2021-08-03T17:06:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610057"},"modified":"2021-08-03T17:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:06:14","slug":"us-pushed-afghan-government-to-release-5000-taliban-prisoners-many-of-whom-are-now-terrorizing-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-pushed-afghan-government-to-release-5000-taliban-prisoners-many-of-whom-are-now-terrorizing-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"US Pushed Afghan Government To Release 5,000 Taliban Prisoners, Many Of Whom Are Now Terrorizing The Country"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fus-pushed-afghan-government-to-release-5000-taliban-prisoners-many-of-whom-are-now-terrorizing-the-country%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=610057&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\/05\/B31BD974-40E1-4008-B8D9-8C09BF367338-scaled-e1621028753397.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Last year, the United States reportedly urged Afghanisation to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners \u2014 many of whom are now terrorizing the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Violence in Afghanistan is rising as the United States seeks an end to its two-decade war in the region. For the past several months, Taliban forces have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/following-bidens-announcement-of-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-interpreter-beheaded-as-taliban-retake-region\"><span>seized<\/span><\/a><span> much of the country and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/following-bidens-announcement-of-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-interpreter-beheaded-as-taliban-retake-region\"><span>executed<\/span><\/a><span> Afghan military officials who once aided American troops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A suicide attack on Tuesday <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/afghanistan-kabul-taliban-dc70d26462d8bdfd9f88d4a2bdd8a5b8\"><span>targeted<\/span><\/a><span> the residence of acting Defense Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, which is located in a secure, upscale area of Kabul that is home to several other government officials. Gunmen reportedly exchanged fire after the explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/taliban-commander-who-led-attack-on-afghan-city-was-released-from-prison-last-year-officials-say-11628010527?mod=hp_lead_pos11\"><span>The Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a><span> reported on Tuesday that many Taliban insurgents currently aiding in the conquest of Afghanistan were once prisoners of the American-backed Afghan government:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><i><span>The Taliban commander overseeing an assault on the key southern city of Lashkargah is one of 5,000 former prisoners released by the Afghan government last year under pressure from the U.S., Afghan and Western officials say.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The commander, Mawlavi Talib, is one of thousands of former prisoners freed to further peace talks who have returned to the battlefield to join the Taliban onslaught against cities around the country, Afghan officials say. The presence of the Taliban fighters is a fresh strain in relations between Washington and Kabul, as the U.S.-backed government struggles to fend off Taliban attacks throughout the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Under Mr. Talib\u2019s command, hundreds of Taliban have pushed toward the city center over the past week. On Tuesday they launched an attack on Lashkargah\u2019s prison in a bid to release more inmates and recruit them into the fight.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Secretary of State Antony Blinken <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/secretary-blinkens-call-with-afghan-president-ghani-4\/\"><span>spoke<\/span><\/a><span> with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday to \u201creiterate the strong and enduring U.S. commitment to Afghanistan.\u201d Both leaders \u201ccondemned the ongoing Taliban attacks, which show little regard for human life and human rights, and deplored the loss of innocent Afghan lives and displacement of the civilian population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As The Daily Wire\u2019s Joseph Curl <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-two-sides-of-the-withdraw-from-afghanistan-or-not-argument\"><span>summarized<\/span><\/a><span> earlier this year, those who support ending the Afghanistan conflict largely agree with President Biden\u2019s assertion that the war \u201cwas never meant to be a multigenerational undertaking.\u201d Meanwhile, those who would rather continue the conflict largely agree with retired General Jack Keane\u2019s argument that \u201cwe ended the war in Iraq prematurely and we got ISIS.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the United States reportedly urged Afghanisation to release 5,000 Taliban prisoners \u2014 many of whom are now terrorizing the nation.Violence in Afghanistan is rising as the United States &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-610057","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\/610057","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610057\/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=610057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}