{"id":641049,"date":"2021-08-13T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=641049"},"modified":"2021-08-13T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:36:50","slug":"three-more-cities-fall-to-taliban-in-overnight-tailspin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-more-cities-fall-to-taliban-in-overnight-tailspin\/","title":{"rendered":"Three More Cities Fall to Taliban in Overnight Tailspin"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fthree-more-cities-fall-to-taliban-in-overnight-tailspin%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=641049&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=\"29.22600619195\">\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\">Terrorist group prepares attack on Afghan capital<\/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=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234631455_736x514.jpg\" 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-1234631455_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234631455_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234631455_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" 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\tTaliban fighters stand along the roadside in Ghazni on August 12, 2021, as Taliban move closer to Afghan capital after taking Ghazni city. \/ 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 13, 2021 1:20 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"88.013351393189\">\n<p><span>Three major Afghan cities fell to the Taliban overnight on Friday as terrorist forces prepare to mount an attack on the Afghan capital of Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, and Herat\u2014three landmark cities with a combined population of more than 1.3 million\u2014<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/08\/13\/world\/afghanistan-taliban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>came<\/span><\/a><span> into Taliban hands by Friday morning. All three cities will provide significant cultural and economic resources for the terrorists, but Kandahar, Afghanistan\u2019s second-largest city and a trading hub, is an especially significant economic boost for the jihadists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Taliban lays siege to the cities as the Biden administration completes a full withdrawal of U.S. troops and civilians from the region. The administration has pledged little material support for the besieged Afghan government, and has instead threatened the Taliban with ostracization from the international community and withheld U.S. aid in the future. As the terrorists encircle the Afghan capital of Kabul\u2014a city which experts <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/taliban-seizes-us-weapons-and-military-equipment-as-afghan-takeover-accelerates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>say<\/span><\/a><span> could fall by the 20th anniversary of 9\/11\u2014American diplomats are reportedly pleading with the Taliban to spare the United States embassy from destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Spirits within the embassy remain low. According to <\/span><span>NPR <\/span><span>correspondent Tom Bowman, the mood of remaining Americans in the Kabul post <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TBowmanNPR\/status\/1426163798063337473?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>\u200bis<\/span><\/a><span> more &#8220;dire <\/span><span>than what the State Department is saying.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Mail has stopped. Nearly all employees are packing up and a very small number will head to another location,&#8221; Bowman said. &#8220;Staff are gearing up to destroy sensitive papers, computers, phones.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As diplomats prepare to evacuate, the Biden administration is also deploying some 8,000 troops to the region. President Joe Biden, however, has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/biden-departs-for-vacation-as-multiple-crises-escalate\"><span>ducked<\/span><\/a><span> heightened scrutiny from the press by heading on vacation to his Wilmington, Del., home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mike Rogers (R., Ala.) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-armedservices.house.gov\/news\/press-releases\/rogers-we-are-watching-president-biden-s-saigon-moment-unfold-us\"><span>called<\/span><\/a><span> the deteriorating situation Biden&#8217;s &#8220;Saigon moment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<\/span><span>Weeks ago, President Biden promised the American people that we would not have a Saigon moment in Afghanistan,&#8221; Rogers said. &#8220;Now, we are watching President Biden&#8217;s Saigon moment unfold before us.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Michael McCaul (R., Texas) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/hfacreps\/r8d3rwq334?e=8593df8d74\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> the Biden administration ignored several warnings about the impending fall of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s lack of leadership has enabled the deteriorating situation on the ground in Afghanistan,&#8221; McCaul said. &#8220;He will be abandoning our Afghan partners and the women of Afghanistan to be slaughtered\u2014and he will own the horrific images that come from it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Terrorist group prepares attack on Afghan capital  Taliban fighters stand along the roadside in Ghazni on August 12, 2021, as Taliban move closer to &#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-641049","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\/641049","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=641049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641049\/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=641049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}