Washington [US], August 18 (ANI): White House believes that the Taliban won’t return US weapons that it captured from Afghan forces, National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.
During a press conference in Washington, Sullivan said that the Biden administration believes that a “fair amount” of the weapons that the US gave to Afghanistan are in the possession of the Taliban, and they don’t expect they will be returned to the US.
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defence materials has gone but certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, and obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport,” he added.
Earlier, Sullivan also mentioned that the US has proven in other places that it can suppress terrorism without a permanent military presence on the ground and Washington intends to do exactly that in Afghanistan.
The terror group took control over Afghanistan on Sunday after entering the presidential palace in Kabul.
The Taliban leaders are discussing future government plans in Doha and are in touch with the international community and intra-Afghan parties to make government in Afghanistan.
The world is closely watching the unfolding situation in Afghanistan as the countries have scrambled to evacuate its citizen from Afghanistan in an attempt to secure their people.

US can suppress terrorism without permanent military presence on ground: NSA Jake Sullivan

The US has proved that it can suppress terrorism without a permanent military presence on the ground, National Security Advisor (NSA) Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.
“We have proven in other places that we can suppress terrorism without a permanent military presence on the ground and we intend to do exactly that in Afghanistan,” Sullivan said during a press conference in Washington on Tuesday.
“Washington is working to help its allies in Afghanistan and get their citizens out,” he added.
When asked about the Afghans’ future who helped the US, he said that the US is working to evacuate those people who helped Washington and get them out from Afghanistan.
The NSA was also asked about any asylum request from the previous Afghan government’s leader, however, Jake replied that he is not aware of it.
On Monday, President Joe Biden admitted that the situation in the war-torn country unfolded more quickly than America anticipated.
Biden put the blame for the current situation on the Afghan leaders, saying they gave up and fled the country.
“I stand squarely behind my decision. After 20 years I have learned the hard way that there was no good time to withdraw US forces,” he said.
“We were clear-eyed about the risk. The truth is this did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated. So what happened. Afghanistan‘s political leaders gave up and fled the country. The Afghan military collapsed,” he added.
The Taliban entered Kabul on Sunday and took control of the presidential palace. The terrorist group is now everywhere in the capital, walking the streets of Kabul with ease (and with American weapons in hand). (ANI)