No more US bombing sorties to support Afghan forces after Aug 31 : Report

Taliban's rapid advance in the country - taking over six provincial capitals within days - may be surprising for many but the US intelligence had suggested that it would take only months for the civilian government to fall in the face of a brutal offensive by the terror group.

As the US is set to complete the withdrawal by August 31, it has iterated that it will continue to arm and train the Afghan forces.

But US airstrikes against the Taliban that backed the Afghan national forces may not be continued after the complete retreat of the US forces from Afghanistan and indicated there was no decision to do so after the withdrawal, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby confirmed Monday, according to an AFP report.

"It's their country to defend. This is their struggle," Kirby said, while acknowledging the situation is "clearly not going in the right direction," stated the AFP report.

The decision to pull out the US troops from Afghanistan has been long advocated by Biden, who believes that nothing more could be achieved by fighting the country and the United States has achieved its stated goal of defeating Al-Qaeda in the region following the September 11, 2001.

"Nearly 20 years of experience has shown us," Biden said last month, "that 'just one more year' of fighting in Afghanistan is not a solution but a recipe for being there indefinitely," Biden was quoted as saying by AFP.