Afghan troops fought to thwart the Taliban attack in major cities

Kandahar: Afghan government forces fought against the Taliban attack in several major cities on Sunday when the rebels stepped over national attacks who saw the main airport in the south under the fire rocket.
Hundreds of commands were deployed to the western city of Herat while the authorities in the southern city of Lashkar were called for more troops to control the attack.
The fight has surged throughout the country in the months since the beginning of May when the US-led foreign forces began the final withdrawal of Afghanistan which is now almost finished.
After winning the large tract on the rural areas and capturing the main border crossing, the Taliban had begun to surround the provincial capital.
Flights from Kandahar, the second largest city in Afghanistan and also the former Fortress of the rebels, was stopped after the rocket hit the airport before Fajar.
Head of Massoud Pashtun Airport said two rockets had hit the runway and repairs ongoing with aircraft which tended to continue service on Sundays.
This facility is very important to maintain logistics and air support needed to keep the Taliban from overrunning the city, while also providing air cover for the southern Afghan tract.
The attack came when the Taliban edged closer by beating at least two other provincial capitals, including Lashkar, around Helmand Province.
“The battle is happening in the city and we have asked for special forces to be deployed in the city,” Atullah Afghan, Head of the Helmand Provincial Board, told AFP.
Afghan security forces depend on air strikes to encourage guerrillas back from cities even when they risk hitting civilians in a heavy population.
“The city is in the worst condition.
I don’t know what will happen,” said Halim Karimi, a resident of Lashkar Gah, a 200,000 city of residents.
“The Taliban will not forgive us, the government will not stop bombing.” Further to the west in Herat City, the battle continued on the outskirts of the city last night with air strikes targeting the position of the Taliban.
A spokesman for the Governor of Jailani Farhad said that around 100 militant fighters had been killed in the attack.
Both the Taliban and government forces tend to exaggerate victims’ claims caused by their respective strengths and the actual amount is difficult to verify independently.
On Sunday, the Defense Ministry said that hundreds of command had been sent to Herat to help defeat rebel attacks.
“These troops will increase offensive operations and press the Taliban in Herat,” The Ministry of Tweeted.
For months, the Taliban fast territorial benefits during the final stage of US military withdrawals are mostly in rural areas.
But in recent weeks they have brought pressure on the provincial capital and confiscated the main border crossing.
The arrest of a large city center will take their current offensive with other levels and fuel problems that the army is unable to fight the progress of the Taliban battlefield.
The government has repeatedly fired a steady increase in militants during the summer due to lack of strategic value.
The Taliban had previously won several cities but had managed to maintain it briefly.
Rebels invaded Kunduz twice in 2015 and 2016, and briefly took control of the city of Ghazni after determining the main government buildings and destroying the telecommunications towers.
In the last few weeks the Afghan government air force, which was supported by the US military, has provided Kabul with the biggest advantage of the battlefield on the Taliban and so far most of them keep rebels from urban areas that go beyond.
Although in the last stage US military withdrawals have also carried out air strikes targeting the Taliban.
“The US military has been involved in a limited way, but in a significant thing that has an impact in fulfilling our obligations to defend Afghan forces when they are attacked,” US Messenger in Kabul Ross Wilson told reporters this week.