Kunduz, Afghanistan: Afghan and Taliban forces fight fiercely on Sunday at the center of Kunduz, officials and residents, after the rebels arrested two other provincial capitals in the last 48 hours.
The fall of the northern city will be a big blow to the central government, most of which have been left behind in the countryside to defend urban centers against the Taliban attack.
“Battle of Street-to-Street Fierce is taking place in various parts of the city,” Amruddin Guardian, Kunduz Provincial Board member, told AFP.
“Some security forces have retreated to the airport.
Taliban has taken two provincial capital since Friday, but Kunduz will be the most significant fall because the rebels launched an attack in May when foreign troops began the final stage of their withdrawal.
On Friday the Taliban confiscated the capital Their first province, Zaranj in Nimroz, and followed him a day later by taking Seberghan in Jawzjan.
“The Taliban has reached the main square of the city.
The plane was bombing them, “said Abdul Aziz, a resident of Kunduz achieved by telephone.” There is a total chaos.
“The battle was also reported on the outskirts of Herat, in the West, and Lashkar Gah and Kandahar in the South.
The advanced speed of the Taliban has captured the flatfoot government forces, but they have several pauses late Saturday after the US fighter bombing the position of the Taliban in Seberghan, the capital of Jawzjan Province was confiscated The previous day.
“US troops had made several air strikes to defend our Afghan partners in the past few days.
“Major Nicole Ferrara, spokesman for Central Command, told AFP in Washington.
Sheberghan was the Fort of Commander of the Afghan War Abdul Rashid Dostum, whose military and government forces were reported to resign to the airport.
Dostum has oversee one of the largest militias in the north and collect a reputation Scary against the Taliban in the 1990s – together with the allegations of his troops slaughtered thousands of rebel war prisoners.
There was a retreat of his warriors to equalize the expectations of the government recently that militia groups can help improve the excessive military.
On Friday, the city of Zaraja in Nimroz Falling “Without the fight”, according to his deputy governor, became the first provincial capital taken.
The government has so far not comment on the fall of the provincial capital, in addition to saying they will be recaptured soon.
It has been a responses familiar with most raising Taliban for the past few weeks, though Government forces H most failed to play a role as a promise to reclaim dozens of districts and border poles.
The withdrawal of foreign troops will be completed by the end of this month, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks in the United States which triggered an invasion that overthrew the Taliban.