{"id":690307,"date":"2021-08-27T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=690307"},"modified":"2021-08-27T13:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T17:21:29","slug":"republicans-call-on-biden-to-recognize-afghan-opposition-over-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-on-biden-to-recognize-afghan-opposition-over-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Call on Biden to Recognize Afghan Opposition Over Taliban"},"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\">20<\/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%2Frepublicans-call-on-biden-to-recognize-afghan-opposition-over-taliban%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=690307&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=\"28.761467889908\">\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\">Thousands of fighters preparing to fight Taliban forces, spokesman says<\/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-1331495137_736x514-1.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:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1331495137_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1331495137_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1331495137_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\tGetty 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 27, 2021 1:10 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"70.198992443325\">\n<p><span>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) and Rep. Mike Waltz (R., Fla.) are pressing the Biden administration to push back against the Taliban by recognizing opposition forces in Afghanistan&#8217;s <\/span><span>Panjshir Valley.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ahmad Massoud, the son of famed mujahedeen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, who led the fight to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan in the 1980s, is gathering an army of troops in a remote valley to fight back the Taliban. A spokesman for Massoud <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/25\/world\/asia\/panjshir-valley-ahmad-massoud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> his army has already drawn thousands of soldiers, including some of the former Afghan Army&#8217;s elite special forces and experienced guerrilla fighters who oppose the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Graham and Waltz said they spoke to Massoud, and urged President Joe Biden to publicly recognize his mission as the &#8220;legitimate government representatives of Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;These leaders chose to stay and fight for the freedoms of the Afghan people and oppose extremism,&#8221; the lawmakers wrote in a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/waltz.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=537\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> Friday. &#8220;They have established a safe haven in the Panjshir Valley for Americans left behind, our allies, and those seeking freedom from Afghan Taliban rule. They will also be on the front lines in the fight against global Islamic Extremism, which will continue to plot attacks against the West in the wake of our withdrawal from the region.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Massoud pleaded for international support for his campaign in a <\/span><i><span>Washington Post <\/span><\/i><span>op-ed, saying his troops share American values and are prepared to strike back against the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;<\/span><span>Know that millions of Afghans share your values,&#8221; Massoud <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/18\/mujahideen-resistance-taliban-ahmad-massoud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span>wrote<\/span><\/a><span>. &#8220;We have fought for so long to have an open society, one where girls could become doctors, our press could report freely, our young people could dance and listen to music or attend soccer matches in the stadiums that were once used by the Taliban for public executions\u2014and may soon be again. \u2026 There is still much that you can do to aid the cause of freedom. You are our only remaining hope.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Thousands of fighters preparing to fight Taliban forces, spokesman says  Getty Images  Jack Beyrer \u2022 August 27, 2021 1:10 pm Sen. &#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-690307","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\/690307","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=690307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690307\/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=690307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}