[Washington Examiner] The Taliban attacked Kandahar air base Wednesday, where several hundred U.S. troops are based, but the Department of Defense refused to call the attack a violation of the Doha peace agreement and downplayed it amid diplomatic talks.See also: "It's NOT a crisis at the border"
The United States and the Taliban signed a peace agreement in February 2020 that required the group waging war on the Afghan government to refrain from striking U.S. and coalition troops. In the intervening 13 months, the Taliban have largely avoided directly targeting American troops, and there have been no U.S. casualties, but their campaign of violence has escalated.
With a backdrop of a deteriorating security situation in the country, the U.S. is just three weeks away from a deadline to withdraw fully from the country — something President Joe Biden has said would be "hard to meet."