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Taliban launch first assault on a provincial capital, are pushed back; 600+ turbans toes up across Afghanistan yesterday
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Fierce fighting has erupted in the western city of Qala-i-Naw, capital of Badghis

  • Footage apparently showed people lining the streets and welcoming the Taliban

  • It comes days after the US withdrew from Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting

  • Afghan army soldiers were seen surrendering to the Taliban and giving up arms

  • Over a thousand soldiers fled to Tajikistan following jihadists clashes on Sunday


Taliban’s hours rule over Qala-e-naw city ended

[KhaamaPress] Ministry of defense in a Facebook post said that the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
 fighters ousted from Qala-e-naw city of western Badghis province by Afghan government force members.

The ministry also said that ANDSF personnel commenced patrolling the city as normal.

Talibs were driven from the building of provincial National Directorate office, national police headquarter and the building of central prison in city, Ministry of defense says.

Spokesperson of Ministry of Interior affairs Tariq Arian in his recent tweet said that Qala-e-naw city has been cleared of Taliban fighters and the city is now fully under ANDSF members’ control. Arian added that the fighters were inflicted heavy casualty.

Spokespersons of the Taliban have not commented on the issue yet.

The central city of Badghis province was toppled by the Taliban this noon after the neighboring districts fell to the Death Eaters. It was the first time that bucolic provincial capital falls to Taliban since the fighters launched offensive operation toppling over one hundred districts mostly in northern Afghanistan.

It comes as the ministry of defense announced that over six hundred Talibs killed as a result land and aerial operation by ANDSF in past 24 hours.
Tolo News adds:
Footage released on social media indicated that the Taliban had reached the prison and was releasing the prisoners in Qala-e-Naw.
Posted by: Fred 2021-07-08
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