{"id":650762,"date":"2021-08-16T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=650762"},"modified":"2021-08-16T11:21:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T15:21:56","slug":"report-head-of-u-s-military-central-command-met-face-to-face-with-taliban-leaders-to-urge-fighters-not-to-interfere-with-evacuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-head-of-u-s-military-central-command-met-face-to-face-with-taliban-leaders-to-urge-fighters-not-to-interfere-with-evacuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Head Of U.S. Military Central Command Met \u2018Face-To-Face\u2019 With Taliban Leaders To \u2018Urge Fighters Not To Interfere\u201d With Evacuation"},"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\">40<\/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%2Freport-head-of-u-s-military-central-command-met-face-to-face-with-taliban-leaders-to-urge-fighters-not-to-interfere-with-evacuation%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=650762&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\/08\/GettyImages-1234711175.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The head of the United States Military Central Command reportedly met face-to-face with Taliban leaders on Sunday, \u201curging\u201d the Islamic fundamentalist group to allow American evacuation operations to go forward without Taliban interference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA U.S. defense official says the head of Central Command has met face-to-face with senior Taliban leaders to urge their fighters not to interfere with the U.S. military\u2019s evacuation operations at the Kabul airport in Afghanistan,\u201d the Associated Press reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe official said that in the meeting on Sunday in Doha, Qatar, Gen. Frank McKenzie won Taliban agreement to establish a \u2018deconfliction mechanism\u2019 \u2014 an arrangement by which evacuation operations at the airport can continue without interference by the new rulers of the country,\u201d the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the Taliban felt obligated to abide by the in-person agreement, and the Biden State Department issued a statement Sunday night, again urging \u2014 with the aid of a small coalition of other countries \u2014 the Taliban to allow the U.S. to evacuate its military and allies and to allow any Afghans who want to escape the country to leave on commercial flights.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the Taliban has not visibly interfered in evacuation measures \u2014 measures that were largely stalled on Monday&nbsp;after video went viral showing Afghans clinging to the wings of C-17s and other aircraft as they took off from runways at Kabul airport. At least three people were killed in the melee. Two men were shot dead by U.S. troops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeparately, witnesses reported seeing three bloodied bodies, including that of one woman, lying on the ground just outside the terminal building,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/three-killed-in-kabul-airport-as-afghans-scramble-to-escape-taliban-11629096273?mod=e2tw\">Wall Street Journal said Monday<\/a>. Both commercial flights and U.S. military evacuations have been grounded. Repatriation efforts have paused in third countries that were assisting in the evacuation process.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. official who spoke face-to-face with Taliban leaders \u2014 something that the U.S. has rarely done \u2014 told the Taliban \u201cnot to interfere with the evacuation and said the U.S. military would respond forcefully to defend the airport if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban \u201centered Kabul on Sunday after President Ashraf Ghani left the country, effectively marking the end of a 20-year effort by the U.S. and other Western nations to remold Afghanistan into a modern democracy, only to see its armed forces collapse as American forces withdrew,\u201d the WSJ noted. \u201cThe Taliban said again Monday that they had issued orders to fighters\u2014which they call mujahedeen, or holy warriors\u2014that they couldn\u2019t enter homes without owners\u2019 permission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban claimed Sunday that it would operate a \u201cmore inclusive\u201d government in Afghanistan, but maintained that the country will now be known as the \u201cIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan,\u201d the name by which it was known before the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Military officials, clearly unconvinced of the Taliban\u2019s new, woke approach, said Monday that the terrorism alert is likely to be raised, and the United Nations, similarly, said Monday that there needs to be a global approach to addressing the redevelopment of terrorist organizations inside the Taliban\u2019s Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><em>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 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the United States Military Central Command reportedly met face-to-face with Taliban leaders on Sunday, \u201curging\u201d the Islamic fundamentalist group to allow American evacuation operations to go forward &#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-650762","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\/650762","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=650762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650762\/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=650762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}