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| Afghan Taliban capture strategic district in northern Kunduz province |
| 2016-08-21 |
| [DAWN] The Afghan Taliban captured a strategic district in the northern province of Kunduz on Saturday, forcing troops to retreat to the quiet provincial capital which fell briefly to the murderous Moslems last year, officials said. Fighting has sharply escalated in Afghanistan since the insurgency started spreading from its traditional strongholds in the south and east of the country to the once peaceful north. The snuffies seized the district of Khanabad, which connects Kunduz to Takhar and other northern provinces, in the early morning, with heavy fighting ongoing in several other districts, the officials said. "The Taliban attacked the district from different positions and we resisted for hours but we received no support. The district fell to the Taliban," said Hayatullah Amiri, the Khanabad chief. Afghan officials in Kabul ...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either.... say a lack of ammunition and few reinforcements are the main reasons for the district's fall to the Taliban, who are seeking to force the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A cautionary tale of cost-benefit analysis.... -led coalition out of Afghanistan and bring in Sharia law. The fall of Khanabad comes only five days after the Taliban captured a district in neighbouring Baghlan province, seizing a number of government forces' vehicles and ammunition. The quiet provincial capital of Kunduz fell to the Taliban for the first time in September last year, one of the biggest victories for the Death Eater group since they were ousted from power by US and coalition forces in late 2001. Afghan forces retake control of Khanabad district in Kunduz The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have recaptured the control of the key Khanabad district in northern Kunduz province. According to the security sources, the control of the district was retaken following hours of festivities since this morning when the Talibs captured some key government compounds. The sources further added that the Taliban gunnies were forced to retreat after the Afghan forces launched an operation to retake the district. There are still no reports regarding the casualties of the Afghan forces and the Taliban gunnies as well as the local residents as a result of the festivities. |
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