President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, Mar 15, 2021, in Washington. WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that it will be “tough” for him to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw the last troops from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war.
Some US officials and many experts fear that if US-led international forces depart before a peace deal is reached, Afghanistan could plunge into a new civil war, giving al Qaeda a new sanctuary. Biden said Trump's agreement was not “very solidly negotiated.” Even so, Biden has retained as his own peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US diplomat who worked the deal out for Trump.The Taliban has warned it could resume attacks on US-led international forces if Biden misses the deadline.
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