Kandahar, Afghanistan: At least three rockets hit Kandahar Airport in South Afghanistan last night, an official told AFP on Sunday, when the Taliban pressed their attacks throughout the country.
“Last night three rockets were fired at the airport and two of them crashed into the foundation …
because all flights from the airport were canceled,” said Head of Massoud Pashtun Airport to AFP.
Pashtun said working to repair the runway was underway and expect the airport to operate later on Sunday.
An official at the Civil Aviation Authority in Kabul confirmed a rocket attack.
The Taliban for weeks launched an attack with the edges of Kandahar, stirring concerns that the rebels were on the verge of capturing provincial capital.
Kandahar airbase is very important to provide logistics and air support needed to keep militants from the second largest city in Afghanistan.
The attack at the airport came when the Taliban was getting closer to the other two provincial capitals – Herat in the West and Lashkar gah in the south.
Significant Terriban Terribution advantages during the final stage of US military withdrawals are mostly in rural areas that are rarely populated.
But in recent weeks they have brought pressure on several provincial capitals and confiscated the main border crossing.
The arrest of any major urban center will take their current offensive with other levels and fuel problems that the army is unable to fight the benefits of the Taliban battlefield.
The government has repeatedly rejected the Taliban territorial increase during the summer due to lack of strategic value.