{"id":4193,"date":"2020-11-12T02:35:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=4193"},"modified":"2020-11-12T02:35:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T02:35:17","slug":"afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/11\/12\/afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan violence jumps 50 percent amid peace talks: Watchdog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/5\/afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog\">https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/5\/afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to mutliple U.S. watch-dogs, violence has risen 50 percent in Afghanistan in the last few months. This comes off the back of September\u2019s peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. It is not only Afghan forces that are under attack from the Taliban and ISIL in this surge; it is also many Afghan civilians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, at least 35 people were mercilessly slaughtered at Kabul University, in a terrorist attack that was claimed by ISIL. This is the most recent terrorist attack carried out against the University, with an earlier one on October 24th claiming at least 24 students. However, many officials within Kabul dispute ISIL\u2019s claim and suggest instead that the Taliban were behind the recent massacres at education centers. Both sides have frequently accused the other of threatening the peace through the killing of civilians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This great rise of violence in the third quarter of the year has cast a severe shade of doubt on the peace talks between Kabul and the Taliban. Since the initiation of the talks in September, very minimal progress has been made in the process (which is really a cautiously polite way of saying none). Much is still dependent on the future of the U.S. presence. In February, the Trump administration agreed to begin withdrawing all of its troops by May 2021. As Joe Biden seems set to take the office, the future trajectory of the peace deal between the Afghan government and the Taliban is still caught perilously in the air. All of that said, even if the U.S. <em>truly <\/em>withdraws all of its troops from the country, it is difficult to believe that this will begin to settle smooth relations between the Taliban and the Afgan government. At the moment, despite the unprecedented advancement made in the September talks, the tensions and the violence are still extraordinarily high. A future of peace in the country is still dismally hard to envision.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/5\/afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog According to mutliple U.S. watch-dogs, violence has risen 50 percent in Afghanistan in the last few months. This comes off the back of September\u2019s peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban. It is not only Afghan forces that are under attack from the Taliban and ISIL in this surge; it is also many Afghan civilians.&nbsp; Last week,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2020\/11\/12\/afghanistan-violence-jumps-50-percent-amid-peace-talks-watchdog\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4193\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}