US-led Afghan war has claimed 241,000 lives, report finds
Amin Alemi
Press TV, Kabul
America’s longest war in Afghanistan is going to end as Washington has pledged to pull out its forces from the country in five months.
Apart from other consequences of Washington’s war in Afghanistan, casualties caused by the conflict over the past two decades show that almost 90,000 Afghan and US military forces, more than 71,000 civilians and over 84,000 terrorists have lost their lives since 2001.
The main cause behind such casualties is said to be Washington’s failures including taking the Taliban not so seriously.
Although the Taliban had a weak presence in remote villages of Afghanistan in 2001, it gradually expanded its maneuver area to big cities-by launching bomb attacks or complex assaults-in and after 2005. The attacks mostly claimed the lives of civilians. In response, Afghan and foreign troops launched more military operations specially air strikes which resulted in a steep rise in human losses.
Now that Washington has realized there is no military solution to the Afghan war, US President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that all US troops will leave the war-torn country by September 11, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11attacks.
The Afghan government strongly believes that the Taliban will never be able to take control over the country militarily due to high capabilities of Afghan national armed troops in the fight against terrorism.
Many here also argue that the only way to put an end to bloodshed in Afghanistan is the establishment of a united front by Afghan people without being dependent on foreign players and convince the Taliban to lay down their arms.
While all players are waiting for the launch of Turkey summit on the Afghan peace process, the Taliban say they are not willing to attend it because the US violated the terms of the agreement signed between the two in Doha February last year. Based on the Doha agreement, US military forces have to leave Afghanistan by May first.
Afghan forces arrest 2 Daesh terrorists in province bordering Iran
US drones violate Afghanistan's airspace: Taliban
Over 20 killed in Kandahar bombing blamed on Daesh
US vetoes Palestinian request for full UN membership
Iran sufficed to striking part of Israel’s military positions: FM to UN chief
IRGC: Israel’s Dimnoa nuclear reactor not among Op. True Promise’s targets
VIDEO | West Asia awakens
'Stop any further Israeli adventurism,' Iran FM tells Security Council
Google fires 28 employees for protesting military deal with Israel
Burkina Faso expels three French diplomats over ‘subversive activities’
Iran slams G7 statement, vows no iota of doubt to respond to aggression
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
