Islamabad: The battle between Taliban and the combined strength of the US National Army Afghanistan and private militias in North Afghanistan increased as the last American army and NATO left Bagram Airbase on Friday.
Airbase has become the center of the Washington nerve in almost two decades of war against terror against militants in this country.
According to Afghan police, at least 32 people, including soldiers and private militia members, were killed and many were injured in the Taliban attack in Badakhshan province and Baghlan in the north on Thursday night.
Amid a surge in militant attacks in the country, Kabul allows private militias, described as “the power of public rebellion”, to fight on the side of the National Army against the rebels.
Quoting the police, Afghan media reported on Friday that the situation in the city of Faizabad Badakhshan and the edge was very worrying, and that 28 soldiers and members of the public rebellion, including the commander, had been killed in attacks on different posts.
Some are held hostage by the Taliban.
“Faizabad was faced with a threat to fall into militants if the Taliban attack was not pushed back,” said the police source.
In Baghlan, five people, including Mohiuddin Pangkhan Haidari, Head of the Department of Pul-e-Charchi Prison Education, and two commanders of public rebellious forces were killed in the Taliban attack.
The situation was very fluctuating General Austin Scott Miller, the commander of the American forces in Afghanistan, recently said the recent rebel territorial profits were about and had warned the Taliban to the efforts to take control of the country by force.
“The military takeover is not for anyone’s interest, of course not for Afghans,” Miller said.
Miller, who oversees the exit of the US forces from Afghanistan, also warned that pro-government militias were being deployed throughout the country to help Afghan security forces who were besieged in containing the progress of the Taliban could plunge deeper countries into the civil war.
Meanwhile, the Taliban claimed to have arrested more than 100 of the 419 countries since May 1, when the last US army and the remaining allies began to leave Afghanistan.
Fierce battle continues in North Afghanistan
