Biden meets with Afghan leaders as situation deteriorates

WASHINGTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Joe Biden met with Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah on the White House on Friday.

The visit of the two Afghan leaders got here amid a deteriorating safety state of affairs in Afghanistan as the U.S. Navy had finished extra than half of the withdrawal from the war-torn usa.

Biden said at the beginning in their assembly that "our troops may be leaving however assist for Afghanistan isn't always finishing in terms of support and protection of assisting keep their navy as well as financial and political support."

"Afghans are going to ought to determine their destiny ... Mindless violence has to prevent," he endured.

Ghani noted that the Afghan-U.S. Partnership is getting into a brand new bankruptcy, adding that Afghan protection forces had retaken six districts on Friday.

The  Afghan leaders also met with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin in advance.

The White House later stated in a declaration that the United States will offer Afghanistan with critical emergency scientific help and three million doses of COVID-19 vaccine through COVAX.

Biden had requested over 3.3 billion U.S. Bucks of safety help for the Afghan army subsequent yr, and different sorts of economic aid can even preserve, in keeping with the announcement.

Taliban militants were continuing heavy preventing towards authorities forces for the reason that drawdown of U.S. Troops on May 1.

The Taliban, in line with its spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, has captured extra than 70 districts over the last month. In the present day development, it occupied Khash District within the northern Badakhshan province on Wednesday.

The Biden administration plans to relocate thousands of Afghan interpreters and others, who labored with the U.S. Navy and feared Taliban reprisals, to secure places as they look ahead to their application for access to the United States to proceed.

Despite the grave scenario on the floor, the Pentagon stated in advance this week that it turned into nonetheless devoted to the September cut-off date set with the aid of Biden.

Biden introduced in April that all U.S. Troops would go away Afghanistan before Sep 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist assaults that drew the United States into its longest warfare.

The Associated Press pronounced Thursday that the main part of U.S. Forces would entire its withdrawal within the subsequent two weeks, and round 650 troops are expected to remain in Afghanistan to provide safety for diplomats.