Dushanbe: More than 1,000 Afghan troops fled to Tajikistan neighboring in early Monday after clashes with the Taliban, said the National Asian national security committee.
Taliban militants have launched several major attacks in North Afghanistan in recent weeks when we and international forces withdrew from the country, including winning the main intersection to Tajikistan last month.
On Monday, the Tajikistan National Security Committee said that 1,037 Afghan government forces had fled to the former Soviet country “to save their lives” after clashes with the Taliban at night.
“Considering the good principles of the environment and complying with non-interference positions in the internal affairs of Afghanistan, military personnel of the Afghan government forces are permitted to enter the Tajik area,” said the committee in a statement distributed by Tajikistan.
Khovar State Information Agency.
It was said that the Taliban had taken “full control” of six districts in Badakhshan Province which borders Tajikistan in northeast Afghanistan.
Several hundred Afghan troops had crossed into Tajikistan after the Taliban released his attack in early May.
Militants have won dozens of Afghan districts, raising fears that the Afghan military will collapse as soon as US and international troops completed their withdrawal from the country in September.
US President Joe Biden has ordered the departure of all US forces from Afghanistan at the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks who triggered invasion.