{"id":679739,"date":"2021-08-24T12:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=679739"},"modified":"2021-08-24T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T16:21:55","slug":"taliban-refuses-extension-for-u-s-withdrawal-demands-americans-stop-evacuating-afghan-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taliban-refuses-extension-for-u-s-withdrawal-demands-americans-stop-evacuating-afghan-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Taliban Refuses Extension For U.S. Withdrawal, Demands Americans Stop Evacuating Afghan Nationals"},"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\">24<\/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-refuses-extension-for-u-s-withdrawal-demands-americans-stop-evacuating-afghan-nationals%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=679739&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-1234845725.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Taliban is refusing to allow the United States to extend their withdrawal deadline, demanding that the U.S. military leave Afghanistan by August 31st, as promised by the Biden administration, despite a reported face-to-face meeting with top Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban is also demanding that the U.S. stop evacuating Afghan nationals and, instead, focus on retrieving Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a desperate U.S. effort to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan gained momentum on Monday, Taliban leaders rejected a suggestion from President Biden that American forces might remain past an Aug. 31 deadline to complete the operation, injecting fresh urgency into an already frantic process,\u201d the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of individuals were evacuated overnight, the White House says, and more Air Force planes are headed to Kabul in order to speed up the withdrawal process, but \u201cAmerican officials are increasingly worried that even with the vast number of Afghans, Americans, and people of other nationalities evacuated in recent days \u2014 a total of about 10,400 people in the 24 hours from Sunday to Monday alone, according to the White House \u2014 many still remain to be rescued,\u201d the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>Just 4,000 Americans \u2014 of an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 \u2014 have been rescued since the pullout from Kabul began following a lightening-fast Taliban takeover, according <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexbward\/status\/1430133660162924544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1430133660162924544%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fredstate.com%2Fbonchie%2F2021%2F08%2F24%2Fleaked-cable-showing-number-of-americans-rescued-from-afghanistan-produces-shock-and-horror-n431953\">to a leaked State Department cable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As of Tuesday morning, the Taliban are \u201cno longer allowing Afghans to go to Kabul airport,\u201d according to a BBC report. They are also demanding that the United States focus on retrieving only its own citizens, even if they remain in Afghanistan past the August 31st deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not in favor of allowing Afghans to leave,\u201d a Taliban spokesman said Tuesday. The BBC noted that the spokesman claimed that evacuating Afghans is a \u201cviolation\u201d of the U.S,\u2019s pullout agreement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.341853035144\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe are not in favour of allowing Afghans to leave\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid adds it would be a \u201cviolation\u201d of the agreement to allow evacuations of foreign nationals beyond 31 August <\/p>\n<p>Latest: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PgvjrfQUeS\">https:\/\/t.co\/PgvjrfQUeS<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bs8TPYooZz\">pic.twitter.com\/bs8TPYooZz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCBreaking\/status\/1430165188276375563?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is despite what appear to be significant efforts on the part of the Biden administration to force the Taliban to allow them more time to evacuate the thousands who want to leave. On Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/burns-afghanistan-baradar-biden\/2021\/08\/24\/c96bee5c-04ba-11ec-ba15-9c4f59a60478_story.html\">the Washington Post reported<\/a>, \u201cCIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting in Kabul with the Taliban\u2019s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and the Biden administration since the militants seized the Afghan capital, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether the Biden administration will demand to say in Afghanistan if Americans remain trapped and \u201cstranded\u201d by evacuation efforts, and an increasingly volatile situation outside Kabul airport. The State Department told Afghans with Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) not to travel to Kabul airport.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday morning, President Joe Biden said he was adamant about sticking to the August 31st timeline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.159509202454\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden is sticking with the Aug. 31 deadline to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kevinliptakcnn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Kevinliptakcnn<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaitlancollins\/status\/1430191441804943361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That puts the United States in a precarious situation, particularly if just a fraction of Americans have been rescued. The administration ramped up efforts to evacuate Americans trapped beyond the U.S. military\u2019s perimeter surrounding Kabul airport, but there are still reportedly thousands to pull from 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 Taliban is refusing to allow the United States to extend their withdrawal deadline, demanding that the U.S. military leave Afghanistan by August 31st, as promised by the Biden administration, &#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-679739","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\/679739","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=679739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679739\/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=679739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}