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US Passes New Law, Giving Troops More Power

US Passes New Law, Giving Troops More Power

WASHINGTON - The US Congress's committee on military affairs has passed a new law on the basis of which the US forces are granted special powers to target the Taliban, Daesh and Haqqani network in Afghanistan.
The new law has defined some additional authorities to US forces and says that the American troops must be provided with more resources and that 9,800 US forces will stay in Afghanistan until April 2017.
Meanwhile, the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) has said that the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Kabul and Washington provided new hope for the Afghan security forces and it confirmed United States' continued aid to Afghanistan in the military spheres.
"In terms of training, in terms of monitoring the joint operations against regional terrorism and continued financial cooperation to Afghan security forces, these are part of the benefits of the US military bases in Afghanistan," MoI sokesman Sediq Sediqqi said.
"The US military bases have two benefits in Afghanistan; the first benefit goes for their own, because they realize war against Al-Qaeada and Daesh is part of their war strategy. The second benefit is for Afghanistan, because Afghan forces get air power support whenever there is need for it as we saw in Kunduz," military analyst Saleh Mohammad Registani said.
Defending Afghanistan's national sovereignty against external threats and providing support to Afghan forces was one of the items in the BSA signed between the two nations.
"We hoped that with the signing of the agreement, we will be protected against invasions, but it did not happen so, we wanted our army to be a modern and professional army, but this did not happen, security continued to deteriorate and wars extended," military analyst Atiqullah Amarkhail said.
Amid a rise in violence in Afghanistan and in the wake of the death of Taliban's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, it appears Washington is concerned over the fragile situation in the country. (Tolonews)