Taliban surge shows failure of US efforts in Afghan army ...Kuwait

The rout of Afghan forces as Taliban fighters take one provincial city after another provides a stark answer to anyone wondering about the success of two decades of US-led efforts to build a local army. Despite about $89 billion budgeted for training the Afghan army, it took the Taliban little more than a month to brush it aside. Over the last few days, the insurgents have seized every major city in Afghanistan – from Kandahar in the south to Mazar-i-Sharif in the north, Herat in the west to Jalalabad in the east. They now stand at the gates of Kabul. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani praised Afghan security and defense forces in a brief televised address on Saturday, say

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