Mitch McConnell calls on Biden to launch airstrikes stop Taliban’s devastating advance as Afghanistan crisis deepens
SENATE Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Friday that the United States should start carrying out air strikes against the Taliban, after the insurgent group took control of a number of Afghan cities and began to encircle Kabul.
Over recent days, Taliban forces have moved at a rapid pace, capturing around half of Afghanistan's provisional capital cities in the space of a week.
According to the Associated Press, the Taliban currently controls 14 of the country's 34 provincial capitals, with cities such as Kandahar and Herat being captured last week.
The president, however, has rejected criticism of the decision to withdraw.
Biden rejected that a Taliban takeover was inevitable, adding: "The Taliban is not the North Vietnamese Army. They're not remotely comparable in terms of capability.
With the jihadi army now in control of more than half of Afghanistan's cities, tens of thousands of people have been left .
As the Taliban rampages across the country, some of its most brutalised victims have been the country's women.
Women were brutally oppressed when then the militant group last controlled Afghanistan in the 90s.
Already there have been reports of girls as young as 12 being married off to fighters, a woman being shot for wearing "tight clothes", and women being told they cannot leave home without a male chaperone.