Taliban explain overrunning 5 districts in Afghanistan



KABUL:

The Taliban on Saturday claimed to have overshoot during slightest 5 districts in several tools of war-ravaged Afghanistan amid sharpening violence.

The group’s spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahed, settled in a array of tweets that a Taliban seized control of these districts in a southern provinces of Zabul and Uruzgan, as good as a executive and eastern provinces of Ghazni and Nuristan, respectively.

The country’s Interior Ministry, however, deserted a Taliban’s claims, with orator Tariq Arian revelation Anadolu Agency that a confidence army usually went on a “strategic retreat” in Zabul.

Prior to this, a Taliban claimed to have taken control of 4 districts in a Maidan Wardak, Baghlan, and Laghman provinces, that Afghan officials dubbed a “strategic retreat” in sequence to save municipal casualties.

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This comes a small over 3 months before a finish depart of a US army from Afghanistan, that already started on May 1, 2021.

Ensuing violence

In a past 24 hours, during slightest 20 Afghan confidence army were killed in 3 opposite provinces of a country, internal officials reliable to Anadolu Agency.

Zabihullah Atiq, a council member from a northern Badakhshan range adjacent Tajikistan, pronounced in a amicable media post that 12 pro-government militiamen were killed in an atmosphere raid by a supervision forces.

According to Atiq, a occurrence took place in a Kohistan district on Friday night. There were no evident comments on this from a confidence institutions.

Separately, some-more than 10 confidence army were reported killed in Taliban onslaughts in Baghlan and Samangan provinces on Saturday.

At slightest 30 civilians were killed and over 70 bleeding in airstrikes carried out by a Afghan Air Force in Helmand range on Friday, a Taliban claimed in a statement.

The army’s 215 – Maiwand Corps, however, claimed that a organisation of Taliban assimilated by civilians was bustling in “looting” a confidence bottom when it was targeted.

Violence has surged in a war-weary nation given a US announced a infantry will leave by Sep 11. According to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, some-more than 250 municipal casualties, allegedly caused by a Taliban, were available in May. The insurgents, however, deserted a government’s claim.