{"id":654519,"date":"2021-08-17T11:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=654519"},"modified":"2021-08-17T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T15:51:30","slug":"nato-threatens-military-strikes-against-taliban-if-they-host-terrorists-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nato-threatens-military-strikes-against-taliban-if-they-host-terrorists-again\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO Threatens Military Strikes Against Taliban if They Host Terrorists Again"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fnato-threatens-military-strikes-against-taliban-if-they-host-terrorists-again%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=654519&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\/2021-08-17T134913Z_1_LYNXMPEH7G0OQ_RTROPTP_4_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-INVESTORS-scaled-e1629214819573.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>(Reuters)\u2014The<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>must not let Afghanistan become a breeding ground for terrorism again, NATO said on Tuesday, warning that the alliance retained the military power to strike any terrorist group from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those now taking power have the responsibility to ensure that international terrorists do not regain a foothold,&#8221; NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told reporters in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have the capabilities to strike terrorist groups from a distance if we see that terrorist groups again try to establish themselves and plan, organise attacks against NATO allies and their countries,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The fight against the militant Al Qaeda organisation, that was responsible for the 9\/11 attacks and whose leadership was hosted by the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban<\/span>, was the main reason for the West to intervene in Afghanistan in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>As NATO this summer completed military operations after almost two decades, the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>rapidly advanced, capturing the biggest cities in days rather than the months predicted by U.S. intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The sudden takeover of the capital Kabul caused thousands of people to flee to the city&#8217;s airport, which is still being held by the U.S. military, desperate to get on evacuation flights.<\/p>\n<p>Stoltenberg called on the<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">&nbsp;Taliban&nbsp;<\/span>to facilitate the departure of all those who want to leave the country, and said that Western defence allies had agreed to send more evacuation planes to Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sabine Siebold, John Chalmers, Marine Strauss, Foo Yun Chee, Francesco Guarascio)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters)\u2014The\u00a0Taliban\u00a0must not let Afghanistan become a breeding ground for terrorism again, NATO said on Tuesday, warning that the alliance retained the military power to strike any terrorist group from a &#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-654519","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\/654519","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=654519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654519\/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=654519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}